Silent Tears [Liberty, Wyoming 3] by Lara Jones

Author:Lara Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2018-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“Where do you think you’re going?” Liam asked, confused.

“You don’t want me here. I can’t even get punished right, so let me go.”

Both men frowned at the unsettled tone of her voice. “Why would you think that, sugar?”

“All I’ve caused you two is trouble and chaos. But that’s the way I normally am. I’m not going to change myself this time. It practically broke me the last time I had to pretend.”

“When, Mora?” Liam asked, trying to push the hair off her face but making it worse.

She almost chuckled, but at that moment she was afraid she might cry instead. “My late husband.”

Liam used a few of his fingers to widen a partisan in her hair enough to see her eye. “What about him?”

“My late husband, David, had the bad end of an agreement with my parents and hadn’t been prepared to deal with me.”

“Explain, sugar,” Dylan asked.

“Can I sit up, please? I rather not talk about this with me face-planted in a mattress.”

Liam looked at Dylan who just shrugged. “Sure, you can,” Liam said and slowly lifted his leg and arm that pinned her.

When Dylan moved away, she scrambled up against the headboard and lifted a pillow to hold in front of her.

Dylan frowned, yet kept quiet. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn’t allow her to hide her body from them, but she looked distressed enough without having to give up the only security she had at the moment.

“After I graduated from college, my parents made me a deal. I was to marry the person of their choice and stay married for five years and have at least one child. At the end of the five years, I would get my full inheritance with no other strings attached, and I could divorce my husband.”

Liam frowned. “Why? For what purpose?”

“I’ll tell you my reasoning first. The main reason was I wouldn’t have gotten my inheritance until I was forty. I wanted it to do things for people that needed help. I would have had to wait sixteen years, and it just seemed like a long time then.

“My parents just wanted me gone, and by getting me married off, they didn’t have to deal with me. My whole life I’ve either disappointed them or they hadn’t been able to deal with my wild personality. I think it was one last-ditch effort on my part to get their approval.”

“I still don’t get it. Why would you and your late husband agree to this?”

Mora looked away because she didn’t want them to see the turbulent emotions in her expression. “They’d been holding my inheritance over my head since I was a child. It was the one and the only way they could manipulate me, and I wanted to take away the last thing they could control me with.

“David, the guy they wanted me to marry, was a genius in the stock market, and my parents wanted him to work for them. David was very shy, and he didn’t really like to be around people very much, and meeting girls was out of the question.

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