Just Business by Julie Cannon

Author:Julie Cannon [Cannon, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781602823389
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, Inc.
Published: 2009-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“I now pronounce you married in the eyes of the Lord, your friends, and family. You may kiss the bride.”

Dillon turned from the elderly gentleman wearing a white collar to the woman in the pale blue dress who stood beside her. Callie Sheffield was arguably the most beautiful woman Dillon had ever seen. Crystal-clear blue eyes looked at her expectantly. A shy smile she had come to know over these past few months held her attention, while a warm hand cupped her face.

“You’re supposed to kiss me now.”

The voice was soft and melodious, teasing in its inflection. Callie—insightful, intuitive, and always right—was one of the few people Dillon Matthews allowed to actually tell her what to do. She knew how to listen to those around her, especially when they knew more about something than she did.

She bent her head and kissed the red lips as instructed, and a wave of heat practically welded her feet to the floor. The taste of Callie’s lips made her forget where she was and how long she stood there.

Finally, she released them and faced the crowd of people who sat in the church’s hard-backed pews. Some were friends, others were business associates, and dozens were people she had never seen before.

She took a deep, shaky breath. By all accounts this should have been the happiest day of her life, but as she gazed at the sixty faces that stared back at her, all she could think was, “How in the hell did I get here?”

Callie’s grip was tight on her arm. Callie, her wife. The past few months flashed through Dillon’s mind as she walked down the aisle toward the back of the small church in the quaint town of St. Charles. Callie wanted to be away from the hustle and bustle of Chicago, and Dillon had readily agreed. Even though she wasn’t in love with Callie and the ceremony was just another means to the end, she didn’t want a bunch of people she knew watching her practically bastardize the sanctity of marriage. She was glad that her side of the chapel held more of the overflow from Callie’s side than her own guests.

The three months that had passed since her conversation with Phyllis and Bill at their beach house in the Bahamas had been filled with nothing but Callie and had led up to today. Dillon had spent almost all her free time courting Callie—going for long walks and eating pizza in the middle of the night after making love instead of making dinner. They sat together on the couch, Callie with the latest lesbian bestseller, Dillon with her briefcase. On more than one occasion they went to bed and simply held each other until they fell asleep.

One night about three weeks after they returned from the beach, Callie lay spent on top of Dillon, their bodies flushed and sweaty. “Will you marry me?”

“What?” Callie lifted her head off Dillon’s shoulder.

“Will you marry me?” The second time she said it came out a lot more easily than the first.

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