The Pregnant Colton Bride by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

By the time Zane arrived at her ground floor apartment to pick her up for the airport on Wednesday morning, Mirabella felt as if her butterflies were giving birth to butterflies—and all of them were vying for space with her baby who had taken up residence there three months before them.

She left behind a bedroom in chaos. Every article of clothing she owned was no longer in the closet, but on her bed, a casualty of her search for something becoming to wear to the wedding with no guests.

“You’re doing the right thing, you’re doing the right thing,” she kept telling herself over and over again, chanting the sentence as if it was some sort of magical mantra that would, perforce, become true through sheer repetition.

Butterflies now on full alert, she closed the door behind her and was halfway down the walk before she suddenly doubled back. She’d forgotten to lock her apartment door.

“Sorry,” she apologized, hurrying to Zane’s dark sedan and getting into the passenger seat. “I didn’t want to leave the apartment unlocked.”

“No reason to apologize. It’s not as if the plane’s going to leave without us, seeing as how we’re the only passengers. Did you remember to bring a valid ID?”

He’d reminded her of that yesterday, just before they left the office for the evening. He had a friend pull strings at the Clark County Clerk’s Office in Nevada, assuring him the marriage license would be waiting for them when they arrived. All that was needed was proof of ID on both their parts.

“I’ve got my driver’s license in my purse,” she told him.

“Good.” He glanced over to make sure Mirabella had buckled up before he started the vehicle again. “You’re wearing that?” he asked as he drove out of the complex.

Mirabella looked down at the two-piece suit she’d finally decided on. Light blue, it was the most expensive outfit she owned and she rarely wore it, trying to keep it new looking.

“Yes. Why? What’s wrong with it?” she asked, her confidence, what little there was of it this morning, swiftly ebbing away.

“Nothing,” he said, “if you’re going to a meeting. But this is supposed to be your wedding. I would have thought you’d be wearing something a little more—” he wasn’t good at descriptions, he just knew what he liked when he saw it “—well, festively elegant.”

Zane was undoubtedly accustomed to the women who moved around in high society circles, she thought, trying to ignore the sting to her pride. He probably had no idea what it was like to have to budget money from month to month, to save up for something rather than just purchase it because he had a whim.

“Sorry,” she replied. “This is the best I’ve got.”

“It’s okay, we can remedy that,” Zane told her. “And stop apologizing so much. You can’t just keep assuming you’re always in the wrong. You’re entitled to your own opinions, your own tastes—and your own mistakes,” he added, glancing back at her suit.

He obviously viewed what she had on as one of those “mistakes” she was entitled to.

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