From Cairo, With Love (Timeless Romance Single Book 1) by Nancy Campbell Allen

Author:Nancy Campbell Allen [Allen, Nancy Campbell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, historical
Publisher: Mirror Press
Published: 2016-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

Max became slowly, simultaneously aware of several things. His head pounded as though someone beat it with a mallet. He was thirstier than he’d ever been in his life. His stomach was so empty he felt ill. And at some point in the evening he must have done something right because he held a very delectable form in his arms.

He knew without opening his eyes that it was Valentine. There was something about her that had become very familiar to him—a scent, that really wasn’t even a scent. He just knew when he was with her. His heart jumped whenever she entered a room. She was witty and made him laugh; she was optimistic, slightly unconventional, and the farthest thing from jaded he’d ever met. To him, she was so beautiful that he simply wanted to stare at her forever. She was the only woman of his association to actually inspire a picture of domesticity that included him in it.

And therein lay the problem. He opened his eyes and sighed lightly, ruffling a tendril of hair at her neck. She was special. She wanted her cottage by the sea and something about lady boarders and soap. She’d said it was a consolation prize, but he wasn’t certain that’s all it was for Valentine. There was a quiet strength about her, as if she was determined to smile and nod at everything society expected of her and then follow her chosen path anyway.

She’d never actually said she would rather have a family. Or perhaps both. Couldn’t a woman have a family and a cottage by the sea and soap? He supposed the female boarders might get in the way. He closed his eyes. He could buy her a cottage by the sea. He could buy her a dozen cottages and enough soap to fill a department store. He knew she thought he was a man of some financial success—she didn’t realize exactly how much. And he preferred it thus. She had been genuine and warm with him, attracted even, all while believing he belonged to a comfortable, but not excessive class of wealth. She wasn’t his friend because he had a vault of money. She was his friend simply because she liked him.

He had strange snippets of the night before. He heard himself saying “I will” when the captain asked if he would take Valentine to be his wife. There was the blurred memory of kissing her soft lips much too quickly—he had clearly not been quite himself—then staggering up to his room with Valentine, and the memory of dodging dragons. He wished he had better memories of their wedding, which, upon further contemplation, he remembered Chauncey Payne and the other two idiots putting into motion.

Valentine defending him . . .

Valentine ready to do battle with that widow woman . . .

Valentine laughing . . . happy . . . smiling at him . . .

If only it hadn’t been a sham . . .

Knowing that the moments of bliss he

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