Wife for Hire by Christine Bell

Author:Christine Bell [Bell, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Ireland, Irish, couples retreat, billionaire, fake husband, con artist, United Kingdom, New York, fake marriage, Colorado, Christine Bell, Fake wife, marriage retreat
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Published: 2012-08-17T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Chicken my ass,” Lindy muttered to herself as Owen pulled the car out of the lot a couple hours later.

After her swim with Bitsy, they’d gone to the great room for lunch only to find there wasn’t a shrimp in sight. It had clearly been the last straw for poor Bitsy. Her face had crumpled, and she looked near tears.

“I sat through that whole dang yoga class, swam thirty laps, and danced my patootie off and now there’s not even any shrimp?”

Lindy had felt so sorry for her, she suggested they go to The Rusty Scupper in town. Bitsy would get her shrimp, and she would get some much-needed space. Only Calvin and Owen had caught them on their way out, and now the cozy twosome was an annoying foursome.

“What’d you say?” Bitsy asked with a questioning glance in Lindy’s direction. “You don’t want to order the chicken?”

Lindy winced. She hadn’t realized she’d spoken aloud. Luckily, Calvin had commandeered the front passenger seat and was waxing poetic on his business acumen in his thundering voice, so it was unlikely that either of the men had heard her. “Yeah, uh, chicken sucks. I’m so…sick of it.”

“At least wait until you see the menu to decide.” Bitsy gave her a friendly pat on the hand.

Lindy nodded and agreed to do just that. For the remainder of the short ride, she allowed herself to stew. Owen had a fat lot of nerve calling her a chicken when he wouldn’t even allow himself to consider an emotional connection with a woman. At least she was willing to take the risk. But then again, she’d had a beautiful example. Her parents had twenty incredible years together before their accident, and Lindy and her brothers knew one thing for sure. Life was too short not to spend every precious minute of it surrounded by people you loved. She’d be damned if she was going to ignore that lesson because of Owen. She’d do the job she’d been contracted to do, and then she’d go back to her life with her brothers, and her puppies and her Melba. Then, someday, when the time was right, she’d find a guy who would love her the way she deserved to be loved…the way she would love in return.

By the time they got to the Scupper and settled into their table, she’d managed to talk herself down. She’d spent more of her day annoyed at Owen for his little jab than she had doing her job, and her job was to gather information. With a renewed sense of purpose, she focused on the Cedarhursts. Owen had given her a look when he and Calvin had asked to join her and Bitsy, so she was pretty sure he intended to use the time to get some information from the man. While they discussed bull markets and brokers, she turned her attention to Bitsy.

“So have you been to a couple’s retreat before?”

Bitsy shook her head and leaned forward to whisper. “No. I was lucky I even got Cal to agree to this one.

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