HER IDEAL MAN by Ruth Wind

Author:Ruth Wind [Wind, Ruth]
Language: por
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 11

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They met to have blood tests and do the paperwork at the courthouse, and rather awkwardly got it all done. The woman behind the counter beamed at them, and chattered, and Anna felt extremely uncomfortable. When they were outside on the steps, her panic rose in her chest again, and she stopped dead. "Tyler, this is weird. I mean, it feels so strange. I don't know how to act or anything."

He said nothing for a minute. It was a cool, overcast day. By the look of the clouds, they would have snow by evening, and Anna shivered against the wind. She buried her chin in the collar of her coat, feeling as if nothing were real, that somehow she had stumbled into someone else's life.

Anna's grandmother had been a great believer in fate. Maybe Anna's stubborn insistence on coming to Colorado had somehow twisted her fate so that she really was living someone else's life. Maybe she was supposed to be back in Queens with some guy who—

Tyler took her hand. "Do you trust me, Anna?"

She frowned. "I don't know what you mean."

"Just what I said." His thumb moved over her knuckles, and somehow the contact was reassuring, soothing. "Do you trust me to do what I say I will?"

"Yes," she said simply.

"Good." His pale gray eyes never twinkled, but there was a softness in them now that Anna had not seen before. He lifted her hand to his lips and planted a chivalrous kiss on her wrist. "This is not the way weddings usually happen, but I want you to know that I will be a faithful, honorable husband to you. I'll do what I can to make you happy."

A lump rose in her throat. "I know."

"What I want you to do is this—go home and try to figure out how few of your things you can live with." His smile was rueful. "You'll have to either keep the apartment for a while or find storage for most of it until we have a chance to add a couple of rooms on to the cabin."

"But there's so much to be done!"

"Let me take care of everything else, okay? Let me do this."

Looking up into his beautiful face, with his hand clasped around hers so gently, Anna felt a swell of almost painful longing rise through her chest. "Okay," she said. "But if you need me, call me."

"I will." Sweetly, he touched her face. "I will see you again Saturday morning, then. Ten o'clock. My mother is going to come get you for the wedding, and we'll go to her house afterward."

She clutched his hand tightly. "Oh, Tyler, are you sure this is what you want to do?"

He sobered. "Yes."

Anna watched him walk away, so straight and noble, a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach. What was she doing? It seemed odd that they did not kiss.

Or maybe it wasn't odd. They seemed to be doing things backward—sex, then marriage, then maybe someday love.

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