Hired Bride by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

Eight

A few weeks later was the wedding of Mandy Milton and Benjamin Damon, and Mitchell and Deanna were sitting together in a stiff wooden pew of a historic church in Savannah.

It was still twenty-five minutes before the wedding would begin, but the church was already packed. Deanna was glad she’d hurried Mitchell up and made sure they arrived early.

Mitchell looked handsome and respectable in a gray suit, although his hair was a little too long and wasn’t laying quite right. He looked familiar, known, like she could close her eyes and still see exactly what his expression would be at any given moment.

Like a really good friend. Or family.

He also looked so sexy she had trouble not touching him, but she was used to that.

“Where did all these people come from?” Mitchell murmured in her ear. “Don’t Ben and Mandy live in California?”

“Yeah. But he grew up here, and I guess Mandy has tons of friends. She seemed really friendly and social the few times I’ve met her.”

Deanna grinned when she saw Harrison¸ stunningly handsome and immanently respectable in his tux, walk up the aisle after guiding someone to her seat. His face didn’t break a smile when his eyes landed on her, but he gave her a discreet wink.

She hid a laugh and caught a glimpse of Mitchell frowning.

“Are you still annoyed with Harrison for helping me out with the contract?”

“I’m not annoyed with him for helping you out,” he muttered. “I’d be annoyed with any man who winked at my wife that way.”

She tried to repress the laughter. “Don’t be ridiculous. He’s evidently like the most devoted husband in the history of the world. That’s his wife over there.” She nodded toward a blond woman near the front of the church—as freshly pretty and vibrant as a wildflower—who was holding an infant in a lovely white dress.

“I was talking to Mandy on Thursday at the shower, and she was telling me about how Harrison and Marietta got together. It’s so romantic. Harrison climbed a mountain for her. And then they had to try so hard to have a baby.” Deanna sighed. “He’s a great husband.”

She was just being conversational, since the stories Mandy had told her were so interesting, but she felt a little wistful at the end, thinking of what it must be like to have a husband so devoted, so completely in love, that he’d do the hardest things for her.

Mitchell was great. He was amazing. But he wasn’t devoted to her, and he would always take the easiest road.

“Well, he’s not your husband,” Mitchell said, sounding even gruffer, “so maybe you shouldn’t swoon over him.”

Deanna stiffened, her mouth dropping open briefly. “I’m not swooning over him!”

“Aren’t you?”

“No. I’m happy for them. I think it’s really nice. Just so you know, I’m not in the habit of swooning over other women’s husbands.”

“Good.” Mitchell narrowed his eyes at her, and his body felt unusually stiff. “Because you’re stuck with me as a husband for three more months.”

She wished he hadn’t brought up the three more months.

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