Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow by Gardiner Jenny

Author:Gardiner, Jenny
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Royalty, European royalty, Wealthy, billionaire, contemporary romance, Modern Fairy Tale
Publisher: Jenny Gardiner books
Published: 2015-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

HALF the romance of a romantic restaurant comes from being in a romantic relationship. Which could have been the case for this dinner, had not one disastrous event after another occurred to derail the romance with this relationship.

Which was what Caroline was thinking as she was en route to the Most Awkward Dinner Ever, courtesy of a relentless matchmaker mother-slash-marchioness who seemed used to getting her way.

As the driver pulled up to the now-familiar manor home of one Darcy, Lord Weltenham, Caroline’s stomach did a triple salchow followed by a double axel until she thought she would throw up right then and there. And when Darcy’s very mother opened the door and practically shoved her son into the back seat with Caroline, well, she thought she’d never forget the look of horror on his face as long as she lived. It was as if Lady Charlotte was forcing her son to attend the sixth grade dance with his babysitter.

Caroline’s plan to cope with this night involved copious amounts of wine.

A stultifying silence blanketed the back seat of the town car as it meandered down charming country roads, destination unknown. Caroline had assumed people around here mostly stayed in town for dinners out. Lord knows she’d seen plenty of restaurants. But clearly there were some out-of-town secrets. Either that or she was being kidnapped and he was going to throw her on the next plane home so that she’d be out of his hair for good.

“Lovely evening,” Darcy finally said, clearing his throat.

“Yes, quite,” Caroline replied.

“Look, Caroline—”

Caro took a deep breath and focused on that glass of red wine that would cut the tension just enough to get through this evening without hurling a steak knife at this frustrating-as-hell man next to her.

“Well, your mother certainly wants to force us together against all odds,” she said. Wine, wine, wine. Wine is fine.

Darcy smiled. He’d never seen his mother so vociferous about a woman for him before. Maybe because until then she’d been busy tending to the love of her life. And now she had a void that needed to be filled somehow.

“I apologize for my mother. She doesn’t mean to be so pushy,” he said. “She’s really a kind and thoughtful person.”

“I think your mother is wonderful. I’ve had nothing but lovely conversations with her. And I know she loves her son very much, so what could be better than a mother who wants her children to be happy?”

“Yes. About that. I suppose my mother’s a bit rudderless right now. She’s trying to act as if things are normal and trying to be there for her children and to take care of our emotions. And so I think it does her heart good to try to pair me up with you. She’s probably under the impression that she’s doing us a big favor.”

Caroline pursed her lips, choosing not to comment on that, instead, letting silence pervade the car. She figured if their driver was watching their body language from his

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