Cinderella's Secret Baby (Mills & Boon Modern) (Four Weddings and a Baby, Book 1) by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins [Collins, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022-08-31T18:30:00+00:00

THEY MARRIED THREE days later in the apartment.

Hunter offered to plan something bigger for another time, but Amelia brushed that off. She really did believe this union would be temporary. That’s why she didn’t take him up on the offer to fly her father in for the ceremony. Tobias had only just settled into the cottage at Lake of the Woods. He sounded content, so she would tell him after the fact.

Maybe she was also punishing Tobias for putting her in this position. He wanted Peyton’s father to do the right thing? Fine. She acquiesced, but she wouldn’t let her father see it and be all smug about it.

She wouldn’t raise his expectations, then dash them in a year or two when she and Hunter admitted it wasn’t working.

She asked Hunter to keep it to a bare minimum. Vienna was their witness, along with Carina. Apparently, Remy had read Hunter’s invitation to be his best man again, but hadn’t replied. Amelia could tell he was confused when his friend ghosted him, but the ceremony went on—not that it was very ceremonial.

She kept reminding herself that it was her choice to keep it so unsentimental and bureaucratic. Unity had shown her a dozen beautiful dresses of various lengths. Amelia had settled on a muted yellow pantsuit that Unity persuaded her to dress up with a satin camisole and a few sprigs of baby’s breath in her hair.

Even that much froufrou nonsense bothered Amelia. She couldn’t help recalling the vineyard and the string trio, the multitude of guests and linen-draped seats and the pavilion of fine china. That vision carved a hollow cavern into the pit of her stomach. Not because she wanted that. Not really. A thrown-together civil union would have been completely satisfying if she was marrying someone she loved, but she and Hunter didn’t have that. That was the reason she felt cheated and unattached to anything that happened today.

Maybe if they had spent the last three days getting to know each other she might have felt differently, but they’d only come together for meals, and invariably someone had joined them. He had constantly been taking calls or meeting with strangers whom he would introduce very casually as, “Your driver while we’re here,” or “She’s with the nanny agency. They’re pulling some candidates together.”

Amelia had been equally busy and inundated with decisions. Did she like this cut of neckline? Would she rather have her hair corrected to brunette or re-streaked to blond? Which brand of crib would she prefer for Peyton, and was there anything she needed from the house in Goderich?

She had left the penthouse only once for a visit to the doctor. She took Peyton because she was due for her first immunizations. That left the infant fussy and running a low-grade fever. Amelia had opted for an IUD, so she had cramps and was up with Peyton half a dozen times in the night.

Hunter came in at four, concerned that Peyton wasn’t settling. He took her and walked her until she cried herself out, allowing Amelia to finally get some sleep.

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