The Billionaire's Wedding Masquerade by Melissa McClone

Author:Melissa McClone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Saturday morning, Henry stood on a street corner in downtown Berry Patch with the three Wheeler kids in tow, wishing he were anywhere but here. Portland, Prague, Paris. Parnassus would be an improvement. But no, he was on a guided tour of a small town with an eleven-year-old who didn’t want to be here either, an eight-year-old who knew too much about everything and a four-year-old who had to go to the bathroom in every building they passed.

It served Henry right for kissing their sister.

All he’d wanted was a taste of Elisabeth, one kiss to kill his growing curiosity, not fuel his fantasies and make him want another kiss and another. Henry blew out a puff of air.

He waited for one of the two traffic signals in town to turn green and fought the urge to hit the crosswalk button again. Once he crossed Main Street his tour would be over. He was tempted to run, not walk, across the street and straight out of town. That would be the only way to make the adage “out of sight, out of mind” come true. He had to get the constant thoughts of Elisabeth out of his head or he was going to go crazy.

The light changed to green, and the Walk symbol illuminated. Caitlin slipped her small hand into his and glanced up at him. “I’m not supposed to cross the street without holding hands.”

Abby grabbed on to his other hand. “Me, either.”

Sam sneered. “I’m too old to hold hands.”

“You’re never too old to hold hands,” Henry said, wishing that’s all he would have done with Elisabeth last night. He thought the farm work would kill him. He’d been wrong. Elisabeth was the one who would do him in. Her and her kisses.

What was happening to him?

His reaction made zero sense. He’d kissed lots of women. More than he could count. But none had ever had this rock-his-world effect. He didn’t like it and wanted it to stop.

“That covers downtown Berry Patch,” Abby said with tour-guide hospitality after they crossed the street and stopped in front of the bistro. “Of course, the zip code covers approximately thirty miles of acreage surrounding the town, but that’s mainly farms and vineyards.” She glanced around. “I don’t see Elisabeth so she must still be meeting with Mr. Jackson.”

Sam scuffed his toe against the cement. “She’s never going to sell the farm to him.”

The kids had been mumbling about that all morning. “Then why is she meeting with him?” Henry asked.

Abby shrugged. “Elisabeth is too nice to say no when he calls.”

Nice? Elisabeth wasn’t nice. Nice girls didn’t kiss the way she did.

“Maybe Elisabeth wants to marry him,” Caitlin said.

The idea of Elisabeth marrying anyone left Henry feeling strangely unsettled, but it did give him an idea. If Elisabeth were kissing another man, she wouldn’t be kissing him. If she weren’t kissing him, Henry wouldn’t be wondering when he’d get another kiss. He would be able to concentrate on farming and making life better for the Wheelers.

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