The Greek's Christmas Bride by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

Aristide wasn't surprised to see his brother and sister-in-law with Vincent and Phillippa when he reached the restaurant, but he was surprised Eden was not present at the table.

"Where is Eden?" he asked after greeting his mother and sister-in-law with a kiss.

"I do not know. We have not seen Eden all morning. We have been Christmas shopping," his mother replied.

"She called and said she was running late." Rachel looked at Aristide as if wondering why his wife had chosen to call her instead of her own husband.

He had no answer for her, except that Eden no doubt planned to take avoiding him to new levels now that he'd cancelled their dinner date. His suspicion was confirmed when only minutes later his cell phone rang and it was Eden. She wasn't coming to lunch because Theo had just laid down for his afternoon nap and by the time she arrived it would be too late to eat with them.

She asked to speak to his mother and he passed the phone over, feeling gritty disappointment that he would not see his wife.

"Does she cancel like this often?" he asked after his mother flipped shut his mobile phone.

"Not at all, though I'm not surprised. If Theo needed her, she would not leave him. Eden has always been an exemplary mother and wife," his mother said with heavy-handed intimation.

"Has she?" he asked with bitter irony.

"What are you implying?" Sebastian demanded.

"If she was so wonderful, why did I forget her?"

Sebastian shook his head, clearly shocked by the question. "You were in a car accident…you had a concussion. That is excuse enough."

"Is it?"

"Oh, my heavens…you haven't voiced these suspicions to Eden, have you? That would devastate her," Rachel said, sounding worried.

Aristide thought silence the best defense at the moment.

His mother gave him a shrewd look and then shook her head. "You fool."

The condemnation was so aggravating, coming from his doting mother, that he turned on her. "You are the one who told me my marriage was not all it should be."

"But I never said it was Eden's fault."

"You thought it was mine?" he asked in total shock.

"Well…yes. I thought you took your wife for granted, that you were naively certain her feelings for you would never change despite your neglect."

"I neglected her?" he demanded, one of his infernal headaches starting.

"Well, perhaps neglect is too strong a word, but you lived apart quite a bit. By your choice," she emphasized.

"Did you ever think that was because she was hard to live with?"

His entire family stared at him as if he'd lost his mind. Maybe he had. Maybe that is what losing one's memories did to one.

"Are you serious?" Sebastian demanded. "The only sweeter woman on the face of this earth than your wife is mine. Eden loves you so much, I almost pity her at times."

"Why the hell would you pity my wife?" Aristide asked in a near roar.

"Because she so obviously wanted to be with you and you seemed totally oblivious to how much your absences hurt her.

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