Married While Intoxicated by Fran Shaff

Author:Fran Shaff
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: funny, sweet romance, romance, classic romance, comedy, contemporary romance
Publisher: Fran Shaff
Published: 2011-01-26T08:34:29.649915+00:00

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“I’ll take care of this, Melinda.” The sincerity of Matthew’s tone did nothing to quell the storm beneath her sternum. Her gut was raging with conflict. Part of it was sick over the sudden change in her marital status and part of it was euphoric over the sudden change in her marital status. Thanks to Sheila, Tamara would now not beat her to the altar.

No…no. It wasn’t victory over a sibling rivalry which filled her heart with a joy she didn’t truly own. She was happy with the prospect of marriage to Matthew because she found him utterly attractive.

Yet, she really didn’t know him. First impressions were certainly not something a woman could count on when choosing a husband.

“What can we do?” she asked, trying to set her mind squarely on the genuine problem she faced in straightening out Sheila’s mistake--even if part of her didn’t want to fix it. “I suppose we could get an annulment. That would probably be the most sensible thing to do.”

“I suppose,” he said as he stared out the living room window

They were alone in the Pottaski parlor. She touched his arm, and he looked at her. “I’m sorry for making such a mess of your life. If I hadn’t lodged my car in a snowdrift by your driveway--”

He touched his fingers to her mouth, stopping her words, and smiled at her. “If things hadn’t happened the way they did, I wouldn’t have had such an interesting way to pass this stormy confinement.”

She smiled back at him and pushed his hand away from her mouth. “Interesting?”

He touched her chin with his finger and drew back his hand. “Yes, interesting. Intriguing, in fact. Actually, down-right entertaining! How often does a man get drunk and end up married to a beautiful woman?”

“And not remember a thing about it!”

They laughed together.

Had he called her beautiful? Her cheeks burned.

He pushed a lock of hair from her forehead. “I can certainly think of worse ways to wait out a storm than being in the company of a lovely lady with long blonde hair and eyes the color of a July-blue sky.”

His flattery only made her cheeks hotter.

The whole room seemed suddenly warmer. Melinda decided to go the window closer to the storm outside so she could cool down the tempest raging inside her. This attraction she felt to Matthew was growing by the minute.

He followed her to the window and looked out. “As soon as the snow stops and the wind dies down, we’ll take the snowmobile to the county seat. It’s only a few miles from here.”

“I heard on the radio that all the county and state offices in the entire eastern half of North Dakota are closed. If you were thinking of checking out Sheila’s story to see if she really did fax a copy of the marriage license, we won’t be able to do that until the offices reopen.”

He looked at her and cocked a brow. “If the offices are closed when we’re ready to go, we’ll have to wait for them to open, of course.

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