Lights, Camera...Wedding? by Laurel Greer

Author:Laurel Greer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-09-11T21:18:05+00:00

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Bea followed Brody into the cabin, her stomach unsettled by his touchy mood.

Swinging the door shut, she reeled on him. “What’s been up with you today? Joking one minute, cranky the next... Are you okay?”

He slung his lean body into one of the armchairs and unbuttoned the second button at the neck of his shirt. He jammed both hands into his hair. “I’m sorry. I know, I need to keep my priorities straight. Today was hard, though. Flipping from one thing to another, the roller coaster of seeing you in the dress and then making the flowers with you and then having our family show up. It’s...it’s real, Bea. In some ways.”

Keeping her eyes off that tempting V of skin he’d exposed at his collarbone, she toed out of her shoes and padded over to the chair next to him. The side table between the two arms, graced by a lamp, divided them like a mountain range. But crawling into her best friend’s lap, giving in to the urge to be close, was such a big no.

Or was it? She couldn’t ignore the heat she’d spotted in his gaze over the course of the day. And then there was the flame flickering deep in her core, demanding his hands make it burn even stronger...

She swallowed. “It does feel more real than I expected.”

“The wedding?”

“Yes. And—”

Should she admit the temptation rising to the surface? The scorching lava bubbling between the cracks of her self-control? Brody hadn’t changed. He didn’t want a commitment, and this was still a temporary arrangement.

“And,” he echoed. Not as a prompt. His tone didn’t suggest he expected her to finish. The knowing emphasis spurred her to bravery.

“Are we going to see other people while we’re married? Quietly, of course?” The words tasted like garbage on her tongue. But really, a year of staying celibate seemed a lot to ask of him.

The handsome angles of his face shifted in revulsion. “Cheat on you? Are you kidding me?”

She lifted a shoulder, forcing nonchalance. “We haven’t talked about it yet, and it’ll be a while until we can convincingly split, and—”

“I’m not going to be unfaithful. Never.”

“But—”

Elbows on his knees, he fixed her with a sincerity that touched all the way to her marrow. “I can’t do forever. But I can sure as hell keep my fly zipped for a year while I’m married to you.”

Relief washed through her veins. “I wasn’t sure.”

“Be it on the water or the altar, when I decide to do something, I do it. I’m going to marry the hell out of you, Beatrix Halloran.”

She almost chuckled. He was decisive—that had never been his problem.

So why won’t he decide to love someone?

Not for her sake. But for his. Yeah, people could live perfectly full lives without a partner. After this debacle ended, she might end up being one of them. She brought her heels to the edge of the chair and hugged her knees to her chest. She knew why he wouldn’t reach for forever.

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