Her Wedding Night Negotiation (Mills & Boon Modern) by Chantelle Shaw

Author:Chantelle Shaw [Shaw, Chantelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-06-24T23:00:00+00:00

A violent thunderstorm kept Leah awake for much of the night. Despite the air-conditioning in her room, the electrically charged atmosphere felt oppressive. She sat up in bed to watch the dramatic lightning that forked across a purple sky. In literature, storms were often a portent of disaster, and she could not shrug off the sense of foreboding that marrying Marco would change her fundamentally.

But of course her life was about to change. She was going to live in Capri, and she was to start structured lessons with Nicky. He was a dear little boy, and she’d found that being with him helped to ease her sadness about Sammy’s death.

The prospect of her public role as Marco’s wife was more daunting. Wearing designer dresses would not turn her into a sophisticated socialite, Leah thought ruefully. Besides, she had only bought a couple of new outfits, which she’d paid for herself.

She fell asleep at last and was woken by the sound of someone knocking on her bedroom door. Her heart gave an annoying flip, as it always did whenever she thought of Marco. But after she’d hastily pulled on a robe and opened the door she was greeted by a waiter who wheeled a trolley into her room. The aroma of coffee from the cafetière assailed her, and she lifted a lid to reveal a dish of freshly baked croissants.

A single white rose lay on the trolley. Leah picked it up and tears blurred her eyes as she inhaled the flower’s heady fragrance. Was the rose a peace offering from Marco? She hadn’t seen him since they’d argued the previous day, when he’d left her to continue shopping. If she’d been a millionaire, she would have loved to buy all the beautiful clothes she’d tried on. Instead she’d chosen only a few key pieces—what the personal stylist had called a ‘capsule wardrobe’. The bill had been more than she had ever spent on clothes in her life and she’d winced when she’d handed over her credit card.

Her appointment at a hair and beauty salon had been more enjoyable than she’d expected. Her hair had looked amazingly glossy after the stylist had cut a few inches off the length and tamed her curls by adding some choppy layers. She’d even felt a flutter of excitement at the prospect of having dinner with Marco, but he’d sent her a text saying that after his trip to the zoo with Nicky he’d met up with a friend and did not know what time he would be back.

He hadn’t returned to the penthouse by the time she’d gone to bed and she had tried not to think about the possibility that he was spending the night with a woman. She knew from the few kisses they had shared that he was an intensely passionate man. He had assured her that their marriage would be in name only, and she doubted he would remain celibate for a year.

With a faint sigh Leah placed the rose back on the trolley.

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