Ophelia's Embrace by Dahlia Rose

Author:Dahlia Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Interracial romance, Multicultural romance, historical romance, BW/WM romance
Publisher: Dahlia Rose
Published: 2020-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Their wedding was small. It didn’t matter to Euan, the only person who mattered was the one wearing the soft beige dress. Ophelia refused to wear white, insisting she was not the innocent, blushing bride. His eyes sought her out as she walked into the formal dining room of Lachlan Manor. Their guests were Marie and John and some businessmen and their wives who aligned with Campbell Shipping. They knew that he was bringing more trade to the town and wanted a slice of this prosperity.

Others genuinely liked Ophelia, and by extension him. Out of the twelve people there, all were familiar faces from his party. Of course, Hansel wasn’t there. Euan wanted no part of that man. In fact, he had already heard the gossip—Hansel was trying to raise funds to compete with his own import and export business. He was finding difficulty, of course. No one wanted to throw money against an ill-conceived plan made out of outrage. Euan was a sure thing with the experience to boot. To make matters worse, the most important man in Kamouraska was not invited to the most talked-about wedding.

Ophelia walked slowly between the guests, the lace of her train gliding along the Persian rug that graced the floor. Father Mackanin had a small smile on his face, and Euan could almost burst with pride watching her approach him. He had come to Canada to expand his business and found so much more. Something he thought long lost was in his life once again. Finally, she stood beside him, and Euan took her hand and kissed it gently. Fate had intervened and rewarded him twofold, her and the child who grew within her.

“You are simply exquisite,” he murmured and was rewarded by her radiant smile.

“Ready?” Father Mackanin asked gently.

“Yes, Father.”

Ophelia answered for them, and that was an even more pleasant surprise. Euan had seen the doubts in her eyes, from their initial coupling, the child and now wedding. She had spent years in Kamouraska trying to make herself invisible to the curious, even her life in Paris—so much so to Euan, it was like she forgot herself. He wondered about the woman beneath what she showed to the world. Slowly, by refusing to be blackmailed with a job or curtailed by the nasty words of the town’s pious unholy father, it seemed Ophelia was finding her true self again.

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in this great house to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony.” Father Mackanin’s voice was a neutral drone that one associated with a man of the cloth. He came to the part that was most important, the one past scriptures, and all the right good things the bible said about marriage.

“Do you, Laird Euan Campbell, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to love, honor, and cherish for as long as you both shall live?” the father asked.

“I do.” Euan meant those two words with his whole heart, and he slipped the gold band onto her finger.

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