McFarlane's Perfect Bride by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer [Rimmer, Christine]
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

Once Jennifer was gone, Connor paced the floor, considering his options. They didn’t change. It seemed very clear to him what he needed to do next. Too bad it was wrong. And a really big lie.

Not to mention totally unfair to Tori, whom he honestly cared about and had hoped never to hurt.

Still, at this point, he saw no other way out than to call his lawyers and let it go, count on them to fight Jennifer off. Her lawyers were at least as good as his.

And she had Kronidis’s billions at her disposal.

No. He was going to fight this every way he could—if it turned out that Tori was willing to help him.

Willing to help him.

Strange. He’d been pacing back and forth for a half an hour, going over the various possibilities, and it had never occurred to him until that moment that he might try lying to Tori, too. That he could propose to her, tell her he’d changed his mind about everything, that he loved her and wanted to marry her and make a home with her, right there in Thunder Canyon. And then when the summer was over, he could plead cold feet and break it off with her.

He almost smiled. First off, she was smarter than that. She would know something wasn’t right, for him to flip-flop like that, out of nowhere. Also, she was way too likely to find out about Jennifer and her threats. She’d figure out what he was up to then, for certain.

But even beyond the low probability he could pull it off, he just wasn’t willing to lie to her. If she went into this with him, it should be with her eyes wide open.

He called the Flying J. Russ answered and went and got CJ from the barn.

“Dad, hey. You’re home.”

Home. The way his son said that word…it was everything. The last of Connor’s doubts about asking Tori to help him with this fell away. He would do anything to keep CJ where he wanted to be for the whole damn summer.

“I’m here,” he said, and meant it in more ways than one. “What’s up with the baby horses?”

CJ chuckled. “Foals, dad.”

“Right. Foals. Well?”

“Ryan and I are trying to decide on a name for the one born Friday. And the other hasn’t come yet. So I was wondering…”

“You want to stay over another night, is that it?”

“Yeah. I was hoping it might be okay.”

“What does Russ say?”

“He says it’s okay.”

In the background, he heard Russ’s voice. “Fine with me.”

“All right. Until tomorrow morning.” They had a few big things to talk about. And they needed to do that before Jennifer came back Monday.

“Okay, Dad. I really gotta go. That foal is coming any minute now, I can just feel it.”

Connor murmured a goodbye and heard the click as CJ hung up. He called Tori.

She answered on the first ring. “You’re back.”

The sound of her voice made his arms ache to hold her. “I want to see you.” The words came out low.

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