Your Marriage Awaits by Jill Steeples

Author:Jill Steeples [Steeples, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

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“Listen, just make yourself at home. I’m going to jump in the shower. There’s wine in the fridge or make yourself a cup of tea or coffee. Whatever you want.”

Molly sighed with relief when Rory disappeared off into the bathroom. She’d only been with him for the last half an hour or so, but already she felt so tightly sprung with anxiety she didn’t know how she’d manage to get through the rest of the evening.

What had she been thinking even offering to come in the first place?

For one thing, she was wearing completely the wrong outfit. That much had been evident from Rory’s face. He’d looked at her almost aghast, speechless, that mocking glint clear in his eye, until he’d remember his manners and muttered something about her looking good. She didn’t belong on a red carpet. To be honest she’d feel much more at home hoovering the wretched thing rather than sashaying along it, trying to appear gorgeous and sylphlike. And sylphlike was never going to happen, not even in a month of Sundays.

No, this was going to end in disaster. Maybe if she just slipped out the front door now, it would save them both a whole heap of trouble. Why couldn’t he have taken one of those dates she’d gone to so much trouble to arrange for him? Any one of the girls would have been a much better fit to these circumstances than Molly ever would be, even sweet Alice.

Molly sank on the low leather settee, kicked off her nude patent court shoes and sighed. If she needed any more proof that she and Rory came from such different walks of life then she only had to look around this luxurious riverside apartment. It was vast, with full-length windows running across the entire width of the flat, giving panoramic views of the city. The room was sparsely furnished by design with a cream leather swivel chair to match the vast sofa, a monster of a television that seemed to dominate the room, a small chrome dining table with chairs, and a workstation that housed all sorts of computer paraphernalia. There wasn’t a flower or a photo in sight and if she hoped she might glean some hidden secrets into Rory’s personality from his living surroundings, then she was right out of luck.

And now, just to add to her woes, she had a wet nose resting on her lap, depositing a nice damp patch on her best dress, and a pair of the most soulful brown eyes looking up at her, pleading with her to take her away from all this sterile luxury to a green and rolling field somewhere. Molly knew exactly how she felt.

“Bella!” Rory appeared back through the doorway, hollering at the unrepentant dog, but still managing to look like a film star, which Molly supposed shouldn’t have been so surprising considering that’s what he was. Her heart pitter-pattered out of control. Perhaps spending so much time in his company

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