The Italian's Marriage Bargain by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli [Marinelli, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Arranged Marriage, Italians, Billionaires
ISBN: 9780373124138
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

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‘Anna said!’ He spat the words out '"Ricardo said!'" The car swerved momentarily but he quickly controlled it, the lapse in concentration doing nothing to improve his temper. 'I am your husband, for God's sake,' Luca shouted. 'Doesn't what I say surely count for more? Why do you listen to them? Why do you believe them and not me?'

'Because...' She tore her eyes away. The sheer drop outside her window was preferable to the torture of looking at him, seeing his charitable smile if she dared tell him the truth. That this was not nor had it ever been a mere solution. That this marriage wasn't one of convenience, in fact it was a terrible inconvenience. It had turned her world upside down. She'd follow him to the other side of the earth just to be near him. All that sustained her was the blissful thought of being made love to by him, held by him, cherished by him. The car was crunching along gravel now, then screeching to a halt outside a massive stone building. Lights flicked on as Luca pulled on the handbrake, his ragged breaths growing more angry now.

'My father smokes; my mother does not like him to do it indoors.' His voice had a patronizing ring to it, as if she were suffering from some sort of delusional paranoia that he refused to go along with. 'That is why we were outside; there is nothing more sinister to it than that. And,' he added nastily, 'if you'd bothered to come out and join your husband, instead of sulking inside and hanging onto Ricardo's every word, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.'

'So I've got it all wrong?' Felicity retorted with a sarcastic sneer. 'Or perhaps I've got it all right. I just didn't "look the other way" quickly enough.'

An elderly couple was bearing down on them now, the man pulling open the boot, the woman shivering expectantly in the snow like a dog greeting its master after a long separation.

'I suppose this is the infamous Rosa?'

'She will be looking forward to meeting you.'

'I must remember that when she calls me Anna,' Felicity snapped. 'And I expect you want me to switch into dewy-eyed newlywed mode now—after all, it wouldn't do to disappoint the staff.'

Luca let out a low hiss. Wrenching open the car door, he walked around the front, forcing a greeting to the elderly couple who rushed over to greet them, his breath white in the cold mountain air. Felicity sat shivering, the icy cold air blasting in through the open door preferable to the cold black stare that greeted her as Luca wrenched her own car door open.

'Come on, darling.' His voice was like a caress, but Felicity was privy to the blind fury in his eyes. 'I can't wait to get you inside.' In one lithe movement, ignoring her indignant wail of protest, he scooped her into his arms, angrily kicking the door closed with one very well-shod foot and fixing his bride with a menacing smile as he bundled her against him.

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