Marrying My MothLady: A Monster Brides Romance by Marilyn Barr

Author:Marilyn Barr [Barr, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marilyn Barr
Published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Millie May

“Do you believe the heartless weasel tried to pull such a stunt? The nerve,” I say with a stab of my beet salad. Poor little veggies don’t deserve to be abused by the tines of my fork…at least they didn’t try to propose marriage via email. I deserve better. I don’t care if I’m Amber’s stand-in to save the forest…but this may be the only proposal I receive in my life. Where am I going to meet a husband? I can’t just shimmy down to the local honkytonk and boot-scoot my way into an engagement ring.

Like Amber did… Some women have all the luck.

“Be reasonable, Mills,” Matthew whines. I gave him a half portion of orange slices and doubled up on the beets when fixin’ his plate because I know he hates them. The attitudes of the men around me are unbearable, and I won’t stand for it. “It’s not like you’re fixin’ to live with him, birth his children, or…hell, you won’t even sit next to him at his company’s functions. This marriage will be a piece of paper we throw in a drawer. You aren’t marrying for love, but saving your home.”

Your home…not our family’s home…not our home…it clicks. Matthew can focus on his career and social life if he ain’t worried about the bulldozers. If I’m married, does that mean I’m Horus’s problem now? Will the marriage certificate be a piece of paper in a drawer, or the baton Matthew hands off to my next caregiver? Will Matthew wash his hands of me?

“Please see this from my perspective,” I say with deflating courage, as his eyes roll back into his head. “If there’s a chance I can live a typical person’s milestone, I’m going to push for it. Remember the elementary graduation Momma gave us? Daddy played ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ on the fiddle. We made robes out of bath curtains and hats out of a cardboard box.”

“It’s like they knew they wouldn’t live until our high school graduation,” he mumbles, pushing the walnuts to one side of his plate. A spiteful victory because I know he hates walnuts, too.

“They wanted to give us the world. Neither parent would be happy with me if I accepted a cold, logical, emailed marriage proposal—to save our home or not.”

“Did you reply ‘no’ or was there more to it? Somehow, you scared him off.”

“I gave him a succinct argument on why his proposal wasn’t good enough and where he could stick it,” I reply with a wave of my fork.

“You didn’t,” Matthew says, drawing a hand down his face. “Mills, this man holds your fate in his hands. He’s a freakin’ entomologist—the type of scientist who would lock you in a lab! Why did you provoke him?”

“Because I’ve seen the man beneath—” I pause to swallow my tears of frustration “—and you have too. He can do better…and I have faith he will be better for me.”

“And no response for three days,” he says, stabbing his fork at the air between us.

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