The Secret Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: Bad Boys Gone Good (Las Vegas Brides of Convenience Book 2) by Martin Anne

Author:Martin, Anne [Martin, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2019-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Horse Demon a.k.a. Nathaniel David VanBuren

Trixie’s family was everything mine wasn’t. The level of noise took some time to get used to. There were children crying, laughing, or screaming, and then the women, all relatives on her mother’s side, talked while they gestured with their hands, all of them aggressive to the point where a few times I thought someone was going to get backhanded.

One of her brothers, Marco, handed me his baby, nine months old, while he followed the toddler around with a plate of food, trying to get her to eat instead of playing with her cousins. How many of them were actual cousins, I had no idea. Everyone was so warm, so open, so passionate. Trixie seemed completely cool with that undercurrent of temper that she mostly saved for racing, and her moments of chaos.

“You want to see her baby pictures,” her mother said, picking up Marco’s baby and trading him for a very heavy photo album.

“Of course I do. Thank you very much.”

She nodded. “That way you can get an idea of how your children will look. Do you think she can have more than one? She was seventeen when the doctor told her that she’d never have any babies. She cried for a week. That girl keeps her emotions buried and then when they come out, catastrophe! Don’t let her keep her anger inside where it will rot her soul.”

She gave me a hug, all soft and smelling of lilacs before she kissed my cheek and went to tell Silvia how to take tomato stains out of cotton.

I opened the book and several women gathered around me to lean on my shoulders while they pointed at pictures of an adorable cherub who absolutely never smiled for the camera. A few pictures caught her smiling when she didn’t notice, but every time someone wanted her to perform for the camera, it was this ridiculously adorable scowl. She was chubby, very chubby, all through her childhood. There were pictures of christening, weddings where she played the part of a bridesmaid looking very awkward and uncomfortable in her dresses, and the pictures of her racing. Her uncle was in a lot of the pictures, black-haired and green-eyed with a smile to make up for her own scowl.

“She didn’t lose the weight until she was what, sixteen? Sweet sixteen.”

“It was seventeen.”

“Eighteen, no, that’s just when she stopped wearing men’s clothes.”

They talked over each other, arguing companionably beside me.

I turned a page and saw a newspaper clipping showing a crashed race car and Trixie sitting on the ground, with a kid stretched on her lap, his chest bare because she’d wrapped his shirt around his head. The blood was soaking through the fabric.

“Do you remember that?” One of her aunts pointed at the check at the bottom of the page, stapled roughly to the clipping. “She refused to sign it. She saved his life, but didn’t want a cent from it. Strange girl. It’s not that she saved him because he was rich, but to refuse payment when it wasn’t any skin off their nose? Inconceivable.

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