Reforming Hunt (Cade Brothers Book 4) by Jules Barnard

Author:Jules Barnard [Barnard, Jules]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-14T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

As soon as Abby and Hunt returned to the house, she took off her heels and started putting away clothes and dishes she hadn’t had time to put away before her harried rush to the chapel…

She was married.

Abby had been in love, she’d had a child, but she’d never been married. And now she was married to Hunt Cade, a man who didn’t love her.

But he liked her. She felt it every time he looked at her. And she liked him too.

Abby studied Hunt as he pulled off his suit jacket, his strong arms and flat stomach defined through the fine linen of his shirt.

She cleared her throat and opened the fridge. “Are you hungry?”

Hunt snorted. “Are you? My brother provided food for a party of fifty instead of twenty. Hate to see good food go to waste, which means I might have overeaten.” He patted his flat stomach. “Not sure I can fit anything more in here.”

Abby closed the fridge and turned around. She wasn’t hungry either, but what were they going to do all night?

She needed to keep busy or her mind would wander to the handsome man she now called husband. And that made her think of other things.

It had been years since she’d been with a man. Sad but true. Not like she had time for relationships. But she was in one now. Only she couldn’t have sex with Hunt. That would complicate the situation to mass proportions. As long as things remained platonic, she and Hunt were good. At least, that was what she was telling herself. “Do you want to watch a movie?”

His eyes narrowed, and Abby got the feeling he read her mind.

He lifted a bottle off the coffee table she’d seen him carrying inside. “I have a better idea. Why don’t we open the champagne Adam and Hayden gave us and toast to our future?”

Abby squeezed her hands together. Alcohol and sexual frustration were not a good combination, but maybe they could tackle another issue. “Sure, this will give us a chance to figure out how to make the marriage look real without little ears around.” Between their two work schedules and her son, she and Hunt hadn’t had time to lay out the specifics of their new reality after the wedding.

Hunt popped the cork and poured fizzing liquid into two mismatched champagne glasses Abby had found in the back of a cupboard. “The only way to make it look real is to act like it’s real.” He tipped his glass and clinked it to hers.

Abby sipped the tart liquid, her tongue tingling. “What do you mean, ‘act like it’s real’?”

Hunt sank into a chair at the two-person dining table. She’d have to buy a folding chair if they all wanted to eat together. “We act like a married couple. We live together, as planned, and are affectionate.”

“Affectionate?” It had been so long that she was starved for affection, but... “Won’t that confuse things?”

Hunt set his glass down. “Abby, if we

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