Once Upon A Beast by KB Winters & Evie Monroe

Author:KB Winters & Evie Monroe [Winters, KB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: billionaire, bad boy beauty and the beast
Publisher: BookBoyfriends Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Hudson

My fingers knotted the sky-blue tie I’d chosen for the wedding. Mia’s mother commented that it matched my eyes when she’d come by earlier to check on me and found it lying next to another on the bed. That cinched the deal for me.

The reflection that stared back at me from the mirror betrayed no outward signs of the war I was waging on the inside. My expression remained impassive, exactly as I’d schooled it to be. My eyes as piercing and calm as ever.

There was only the slightest of tremors in my hand as I knotted the tie that would have given me away, but even then, only to a very astute onlooker.

Mia’s family, as surprised as they all were, had thrown themselves into the wedding as soon as Mia had confirmed we were serious about it. The intensity with which they loved her was something that had to be seen to be explained.

It made me feel like shit that I was the reason she was lying to them about something that was obviously far more important to her than I ever imagined it would be.

A soft knock on my door startled me from my thoughts. “Come in.”

Mia’s grandfather stepped into the room, his kind eyes meeting mine in the reflection of the full-length mirror in the guest room I’d slept in the night before and had been told to get ready for the wedding in. “You got a minute, son?”

“Sure,” I answered. “Everything okay out there?”

He clicked the door shut behind him and moved to sit on the edge of the bed, straightening his tie as he studied my expression.

He waved his hand dismissively at my question. “Yeah. Everything’s fine. If there’s one thing this family can do it’s throwing a party together in no time. I wanted to come check on you. How are you holding up?”

“I’m fine,” I assured him, finding it strangely endearing that he’d come to see me. It seemed he’d taken a liking to me, though I had no idea why.

He studied my eyes and grinned for a reason that was beyond me. “You keep telling yourself that, Hudson.”

“What do you mean?” My hands stilled. I turned to face him, genuinely confused about what he was talking about.

“It’s okay to be nervous, son. Every groom is. Don’t believe anyone who tells you any differently.” His kind eyes twinkled.

“Um, okay, I won’t believe it, but I’m really not nervous,” I said firmly. He was clearly mistaking the feelings the war was stirring up in me for nerves. He simply shook his head and laughed.

“Sure, sure.” He waved a hand again.

“I’m not.” I insisted, even though I had no idea why I was trying to convince him otherwise. I shouldn’t have given a shit about what the old man thought, but I was having trouble convincing myself of that.

“I’m not sorry to be the one to break it you, my boy, but it’s written all over your face.” What? It was not. I’d just seen my own reflection, I looked fine.

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