His Trophy Wife by Leigh Michaels

Author:Leigh Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

IT HAD taken her the better part of half an hour to study all the different sorts of artists’ clays on display in the university bookstore, but Morganna had finally made her decision and was lifting the largest available carton from the bottom shelf when Emily Hamilton came around a corner and almost bumped into her.

“I thought I heard you over here talking to a salesclerk,” Emily said. She eyed the carton in Morganna’s arms. “That’s a lot of clay. Are you going to start throwing pots?”

Morganna shook her head. “It’s the wrong kind to use on a potter’s wheel. There’s a special clay for everything these days—or at least the store is carrying more varieties than when I was in art school. What are you doing hanging out at the campus bookstore?”

“Taking an advance look at the textbooks for a few classes I’m considering signing up for.”

“You’re going back to school? But you have a degree, and it’s even in a field that will let you earn a living.”

“A very boring living. And I was in such a hurry to get through school that I never deviated from the classes that were required for my major. So now I’m going to start taking the interesting things I missed back then. I was thinking of linguistics, maybe, or a class called The Politics of Waste Recycling, but—”

“I wouldn’t call either of those an amusing little hobby,” Morganna mused.

“Judging by the reading lists the professors have posted,” Emily said, “I’ll have to agree with you. I was also thinking of art appreciation, even though the textbook needs to be outfitted with its own set of wheels. Hey, why don’t you come and take something with me? Not art appreciation, of course, because you’d make the rest of us look bad. But we could both sign up for the seminar about who really wrote Shakespeare.”

“I don’t think so, Emily.”

Emily gave a little sigh. “I know Sloan doesn’t like the idea of you working, but he surely couldn’t object to you taking a class one night a week.”

Right now he might, Morganna thought. Nicolet University was one of the ten most ruinously expensive institutes of higher education in the nation. A single class there could cost as much as an entire semester at another university. And when the class was only for entertainment’s sake, the fact that the university was also one of the ten best in the country didn’t help to justify the cost.

She wondered exactly what Sloan had meant when he’d said he was overextended. Could she believe his reassurance, or was he simply trying to keep her from finding out how bad things really were?

In her own way, Morganna realized, she’d been just as foolishly trusting as her mother had been in leaving money matters entirely to the man of the family. Of course, the situations were a little different—there’d never been any question of her marriage to Sloan being a true partnership. Trophy wives didn’t ask questions; it was one of the rules.

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