Mail-Order Bear: BBW Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance (BRIDES fur BEARS Book 5) by Natalie Kristen

Author:Natalie Kristen [Kristen, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-11T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Reid sat across from Lauren at the lawyer's office and frowned at the piece of paper in front of him. It was Lauren's idea to sign a prenup. And Reid was surprised at his own ambivalent feelings regarding the whole thing. Hadn't he told himself that he would never let a woman get her dainty but dishonest hands on his assets again?

He had told Lauren about his failed marriage. It was only fair for her to know about his past.

Lauren had been very calm as she listened to him. He had told her how he met Shelly and how he had fallen for her in a very short time. Shelly was a witch, and he suspected but never mentioned to anyone that she had used witchcraft to attract him. During their brief marriage, he did his best to be a good husband to her, but she fooled around. And when they divorced, she got an exorbitant amount in the divorce settlement. Reid had to sell almost everything he owned and worked so hard for in order to pay her off. His business, his house, his car.

He could hear his own anger and bitterness in his voice as he spoke about his divorce, but Lauren was unfazed. When he finished, she stood up and said, “Let's go. We'll go to the lawyer's office and get a prenup. After the contract is signed, we'll get married.”

The prenuptial agreement was simple. If they divorced, everything that Reid owned before marrying Lauren would remain his. There was a similar clause for Lauren, but she'd laughed when she read it. “I have a few hundred dollars in my savings account. That's it. And I withdrew some money before I came to Shadow Point, so the amount is even less now.”

Reid stared at Lauren as she picked up a pen and signed at the bottom of the agreement. She slid the papers over to him and waited.

Reid knew that she was making a point. She didn't want his money. She wasn't a gold-digger and she wasn't his ex-wife. She was just marrying him to protect herself and her nephew from the wolves.

With a heavy sigh, Reid scrawled his signature beside hers. He signed the agreement in duplicate and handed the papers back to the lawyer.

Reid walked out of the lawyer's office with Lauren by his side and the agreement in his hand. This was what he wanted, wasn't it? So why did he hate what he was doing?

Damien had dropped by and taken Eddie to the playground while Reid went with Lauren to the lawyer's office. Eddie had been happy to go with Damien. The boy definitely preferred Uncle Busybody to “sir”.

Damien had given him a disapproving, disgusted look when he heard where they were going but for once, he kept his opinions to himself. He knew what Shelly did to Reid, and he knew Reid was still bitter about losing everything he had worked so hard for.

“I'm happy you're getting married,” Damien had told Reid before they left the house.

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