Taking the Belle by Abby Knox

Author:Abby Knox [Knox, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

Rosemary

Lionel wasn’t going to let anyone eat tonight. He was going to go on and on for half a century if that was what it would take to convince Rosemary that she was forbidden from marrying Ash. Fat lot of good that would do, talking himself until he was hoarse.

It was too bad. She was starving and that lamb roast smelled absolutely ridiculous.

So then she did something unprecedented. She stood up.

“Daddy, you were rude to my fiancé, and I am fucking starving. Come on, Lety, I’m going to the kitchen to eat. Mama, feel free to join me.”

Later, in the kitchen, Rosemary was eating over the sink.

“Mama, let’s cut to the chase,” Rosemary said with a mouth full of lamb. She had mint jelly all over her gel manicure, but she did not care. “Will you and Daddy please come to the wedding?”

Betsy shook her head and said, “He’s not like us, dear. He is not going to accept us once he finds out who we really are.”

“But you accepted Daddy and you’re not a shifter!”

“Rosemary, dear, my circumstances were different. I came from nothing and your father was a way out. Ashton has his own money and, no doubt, a line of 100 percent human girls around the block just waiting to catch his eye.”

This made Rosemary give a low, territorial growl as she chewed the last of the meat from the bone and shot her mother a side-eye.

“Don’t start one of your little hissy fits, Rosemary. You’re practically still a kitten. You know very little about life. Be careful where you set your sights. Not all panthers are meant to mate for life. Do you really want to mesh this family irreversibly with our most hated business rival?”

“Mama, I do not care about any of that.”

“Well, maybe you should. You have a roof over your head and an insurance policy on that shoe collection of yours that says perhaps you should care.”

Rosemary rolled her eyes. “Holding that over my head again, I see. You do know that Ashton and I are grownups and we’re going to get married whether you approve or not. We’re not children who need your blessing. We desire your blessing, but if we do not have it, it’s not going to stop us. All you have to do is come to the wedding.”

Her mother laughed out loud. “Next I suppose you’re going to tell me that you don’t need your daddy’s money to plan this thing.”

“If you won’t give us a blessing and accept Ash, then no, I don’t need your money. We can do it on our own,” Rosemary said.

“And why in the ever-loving world would I go to my daughter’s wedding where not only do I not approve of the groom?” asked Betsy. “And just where do you think you’re gonna have this wedding? The VFW Post?”

Rosemary had finished cleaning off her face and hands in the sink and wiped her face off on a towel. She turned to her mother and said, “Because of me.

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