Vacancy Wife Of Convenience by Jessica Steele

Author:Jessica Steele
Format: epub

dressed for the outdoors, and before she could say a word,

'Where are you going?' he demanded.

'We need some salad things.'

'Mrs Varley can go out for any shopping!'

'Mrs Varley has enough to do!' Colly answered. 'Though if you ask her nicely I'm sure she'll make you a coffee when she has hers.'

He wasn't having that. 'I'll come with you,' he stated categorically.

'No, you won't!' Colly returned swiftly. And, ignoring the thrust of his chin that she thought she could tell him what to do, 'Mrs Varley says it's bitterly cold out—and you're still suffering extremes of temperature. You need to stay in the same environment.'

'Who told you that?' he questioned belligerently.

'Nobody had to tell me,' she replied, and, with a superior look, 'It's just something that women know. Now,' she went on tartly, 'is there anything I can get you while I'm out?

Anything—' She broke off, then, eyeing him fixedly. 'Any cheques you would like me to pay into your bank?' She refused to look away—he did not bat a guilty eyelid. 'You do intend to bank that cheque I sent you, I hope?' she challenged knowing she'd want to thump him if he dared to ask what cheque.

He did not ask. But made her cross just the same when he bluntly retorted, 'I don't consider I should. We made a bar gain, you and I—that money was part of it.'

'Agreed,' she said, purely because she could not deny it.

'But I have money of my own now, and I don't feel comfortable about taking yours.'

His look said tough, and that was before he forthrightly told her, 'Likewise! To take your money makes it too onesided.' She opened her mouth to argue, but he went steamrollering on, 'I have that piece of paper I need, that marriage

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