Accidental Wife by Day Leclaire

Author:Day Leclaire [Leclaire, Day]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9781459277700
Google: VDk2w-NxlEMC
Amazon: 0263155048
Barnesnoble: 0263155048
Goodreads: 3637762
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1996-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

"How could you?" Nikki demanded furiously.

"How could I? How could you?"

"You don't understand!"

"You're damned right I don't," Jonah snarled, tossing their luggage into the spacious elevator. Inserting a key in the floor-selector panel, he slammed his palm against the button for the penthouse. "Krista is a member of your family. Doesn't that mean anything to you?"

"Of course it does—"

"And yet you'd still toss your own sister and niece out of their home?"

He swiveled to confront her, and the spaciousness of the car instantly shrank. She felt as though she'd stumbled into a lion's den and found herself face-to-face with the top cat—a savage, ill-tempered beast only too happy to shred some flesh from her bones. It wasn't a pleasant sensation.

"I'd never force Krista to leave," she insisted.

"But you'd make it so uncomfortable for her, she'd vacate of her own accord, right?" The contempt in his voice ripped at her self-control. "I'll bet it's the only home those two have ever known, isn't it?"

She didn't dare answer that one, not when her response would further incite him. "Krista doesn't want to live with me anymore," Nikki attempted to explain. "She wants to move in with a friend. I'm just trying to give her a gracious way out."

His eyes flashed with gold fire. "Oh, you're giving her a gracious way out, all right. Right out the door and onto the street."

"That's not true! The problem is, she won't leave because she doesn't want me to live alone. She's got this crazy idea that she owes me."

He folded his arms across his chest, drawing her attention to the imposing width of his shoulders. Where once she took comfort in his size, now it only served to intimidate. "And who gave her that idea? You?"

She wouldn't explain, and no amount of baiting on his part could force her to. "I don't care what you think," she said tightly. "I told you from the start that I needed a husband in order to resolve two problems."

"Eric and a personal matter. I remember." He speared her with a flinty look. "If I'd had any idea what that personal matter involved or how you planned to rectify it, I'd never have married you."

"And if I'd known you'd end up interfering in something that's none of your business, I wouldn't have married you, either," she flashed back, her temper smoldering. "Krista and Keli are the two most important people in my life—"

He gave a short, hard laugh. "You have a funny way of showing it."

"I let you handle Eric the way you thought best. But you didn't grant me the same courtesy, did you?"

"There's one important difference. I had Eric's best interests at heart."

"Just as I had Krista's! If you'd let me do the talking instead of butting in the way you did, it would have all worked out fine. But now you've ruined everything I worked so hard to arrange. I went to all the expense and awkwardness of marrying for nothing. Nothing! And it's all your fault.

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