Take Me by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101007969
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2010-05-18T22:08:05.390000+00:00

LADY ASHTON AND MRS. DRAKE ARRIVED TO HELP Calantha prepare for her wedding two mornings later.

“It is very kind of you to take time to be with me this morning, Lady Ashton. I’m sure you have things you could be doing at the manor.” Only a small party of local gentry had been invited to the wedding breakfast, but Calantha knew what it was like to arrange entertainments of that sort.

“You must call me Irisa now,” the blond woman said with a warm smile. “We are to be sisters.”

An only child, the prospect of having sisters delighted Calantha to the tips of her gold satin wedding slippers. “Thank you. You may call me Calantha.”

“I like Cali better,” Thea announced from the other side of her.

“Please call me whatever you like, Thea.”

Jenny stepped forward to slip the virginal white gown over Calantha’s head. Her hair had not yet been dressed.

As the satin folds settled around Cali, Irisa applauded. “It’s lovely, Cali. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in anything but blue.”

Calantha looked at the formal white gown with a critical eye. The bodice was cut lower than her usual modest style and exposed the top swell of her small breasts. They did not look quite so small with the corset pushing her curves upward and the gathered bosom of the gown giving her added dimension. The skirt fell in several elegant tucks, accentuated with gold rosettes and streamers, which revealed the gold shot white satin underskirt below.

“As soon as I finished the traditional black of mourning, I had an entire wardrobe made up in as many shades of blue as I could find.”

“It’s a very good color on you,” Thea remarked diplomatically.

“My first husband did not think so. He said that it was too common for a woman with blue eyes to wear the color, and during the entire two years of my marriage, I never so much as had a blue handkerchief.”

“I can attest to that,” Jenny said, breaking the silence that had gripped her since Jared’s sisters invaded Calantha’s bedchamber.

“Jared won’t care what color you wear,” Irisa predicted.

Calantha smiled at her reflection in the mirror, for once finding pleasure in the beauty reflected back at her. She wanted to be beautiful for Jared. She agreed with his sister’s assessment. He wouldn’t care what color she wore, or if her gown was the latest fashion. Those sorts of things didn’t matter to the man she was going to marry.

“I think that married to your brother, I shall wear a rainbow of colors.” Only then would her happiness at finding such a man be reflected accurately.

His sisters seemed to understand because they gave her matching smiles of approval. Jenny pulled the mass of golden hair that hung to Calantha’s waist into several intricate curls and tucks on top her head. When she was finished, she placed a small ringlet of pearls Calantha’s mother had given her on her comeout around her neck.

“You look like the angel the ton claims you to be.

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