Wooing His Convenient Wife by Annie Burrows

Author:Annie Burrows
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-03-30T18:42:52+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Penny stood there, glaring at the door through which he’d just gone.

How dare he say she’d broken her word? Or imply it, by stressing the fact that he’d kept his.

Which he had, she had to admit. He’d done everything he’d agreed to do. In spite of...well, he must have been tempted to keep control of her money, but he’d made sure everything was now in her name. She’d started to think that the reason it had been taking his man Winters so long to draw up the necessary paperwork for her new account with a London bank had been a case of dragging his heels. When all the time, she now saw, in a blinding flash, he’d probably been sneaking looks at the account books...

Which must have been how he’d disposed of Mr Wheeler.

Yes, but he shouldn’t have gone about it in such a...devious way, she reminded herself.

But then, the more rational part of her argued, how else could he have bested a man as cunning as Wheeler?

Oh, lord, and she had said that playacting and telling lies made her uncomfortable. She’d even implied that had been the cause of her headache, on the way here!

How was he to have guessed that it wasn’t the whole story, when she hadn’t told him?

She turned to gaze sightlessly out of the window, feeling her cheeks heating with mortification. It was pride that had brought her to this point. She’d been too proud to admit that she’d been falling for him so rapidly. To admit to herself that if she trusted him too much, if she allowed those feelings to grow, that when he betrayed her, it would destroy her.

And just now, a lot of her anger had stemmed from the fact that he’d done everything in such a way that it had made her feel as if her own ideas, her own methods, had been foolish. That was one of the reasons she’d flown into the boughs when he’d confessed to all that playacting. Because it felt as if he’d gone behind her back. It had felt like a kind of betrayal.

But it hadn’t been, she could see that now. He’d just been doing the best he could, given all the things she’d told him.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

She whirled back round and strode to the door. She’d have to tell him that...

She paused with her hand on the latch.

If she ran to his room now, or wherever he’d gone, while he was still seething at the way she’d just behaved, he might not be ready to listen. It might be better to let his temper cool a bit. He was, at heart, an easy-going man. He’d listen to reason, once she explained...once she begged his pardon for the insults she’d flung at him.

In fact, it might be better to wait until he came to her room, later tonight, when they could talk in complete privacy. She had no wish to humiliate herself further by running all over the house looking for

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