SOS: Convenient Husband Required by Liz Fielding

Author:Liz Fielding [Fielding, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-01T23:00:00+00:00

‘Well, that was painless,’ Adam said as they emerged from the register office.

May nodded, but she was very pale. And, while it might have been painless for him, everyone who worked in the Town Hall, the Registrar’s Office, had known her. They’d been eager to congratulate her and cooed over the baby, assuming it was hers.

‘Why did you let everyone think Nancie was your baby?’ he said.

‘I thought that it would be safer.’

‘Safer?’ He frowned.

‘For Saffy.’

He was momentarily lost for words. While everyone knew her, she was an intensely private person and inside she must have been dying of embarrassment at being the centre of attention, but she’d smiled and smiled and let everyone think whatever they wanted in order to protect his wayward sister.

‘I don’t know about you, but I’ve missed lunch…’ he said. ‘Let’s grab a sandwich.’

‘I thought we were going to the business park. Nancie will need feeding again soon.’

‘You won’t be any use to her if you collapse from hunger,’ he said, taking her arm, steering her across the road to the thriving craft centre that had once been a big coaching inn in the centre of the town.

It was lit up for the holiday season and packed with shoppers, but the lunch time rush was over in the courtyard café and they took a table near the window where there was room for the buggy.

‘A BLT for me, I think. You?’

She nodded.

He ordered, adding a pot of tea without asking. ‘You’ve had a shocking morning—we both have. Hot, sweet tea is what the doctor orders,’ he said when the waitress had gone.

‘The reality is just beginning to sink in.’

‘It was a terrible thing to do to you,’ he said.

‘What? Oh.’ She shook her head. ‘His memory had gone. He didn’t know.’

He’d assumed that she’d been talking about the loss of her home, but it seemed that marrying him was the shocker.

Well, if she’d been looking forward to an artistic partnership with the well-bred, public school educated but presumably penniless Jeremy Davidson—divorce would strip him of a large part of his assets—she had every reason to be in shock.

But, like her ancestor before her, she was prepared to do whatever it took to hold onto the family estate. Not so much a fate worse than death as a fate worse than being a nobody, living in an ordinary little house, the wife of a man who no one had ever heard of.

‘Did you sort out your honey labels?’ he asked.

She stared at him, then, as their food arrived, ‘Oh, the labels. I took your advice and gave Jeremy the watercolour. He’s going to scan it into his computer, see what he can do with it.’

Adam discovered he wasn’t anywhere near as happy about that as he should have been, considering it had been his idea, but what could he say? That he didn’t want the man in her bedroom, getting hot and sweaty at the thought of her peaches and cream body nestled in all that white linen and lace.

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