Marriage of Unconvenience by Chelsea M. Cameron

Author:Chelsea M. Cameron [Cameron, Chelsea M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, LGBT, queer, new adult, contemporary romance
Publisher: Chelsea M. Cameron
Published: 2018-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

We spent the rest of the day arguing about where we were going to go for our trip. Turned out that I did have opinions about locations for our vacation.

“There are too many things that can kill us in Australia. No way. I am not being attacked by a giant spider-kangaroo-wombat,” I said, and Cara burst out laughing.

“I hate to break it to you, but there is no such thing as a giant spider-kangaroo-wombat, and if there was, then it would be fucking adorable and awesome and I would want to take pictures with it.” I groaned.

“No, Cara. No. We are not doing that.” She made a huffy noise and crossed Australia off the list of places to visit.

“There are so many other places that have less things that can kill or maim us,” I said.

“You know that people are hit by cars in Boston every single day, right?” I did, but that was different.

“At least those cars aren’t being driven by giant poisonous spiders.”

“They aren’t in Australia.”

“Maybe they are. How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I grinned at her and she shoved me away and threw a pillow in my face.

“You’re impossible.”

“Your impossible wife,” I said, emphasizing the word. I had no idea what it was about that word, but I loved the sound of it. I enjoyed saying it and thinking of myself as Cara’s wife. Technically, I was. I had a shiny marriage certificate to prove it. In two weeks we needed to get a certified copy made at City Hall and then the paperwork for the withdrawal notarized. And then the money would be wired to my brand-new bank account just for that purpose, minus some that was going to a savings account for tax purposes. Fuck that. Who wanted to think about taxes? I mean, other than accountants, and maybe not even them.

“Yup, my wife. My wife who has decided that there’s something wrong with an entire continent just because there might be some dangerous animals. There are dangerous animals in the US too.” Now I was the one who wanted to shove a pillow in her face.

“Anywhere else. Anywhere other than Australia,” I said, and she sighed heavily.

“Fine, crush my dreams.”

“Isn’t that also my job as your wife?”

“Stopppppppp.”

Monday we went to my local bank to get the paperwork notarized. I wished we could get the marriage certificate, but that wasn’t going to happen because of bureaucracy. I just wanted my damn money.

I took our wedding dresses to a shop to be cleaned and preserved. Who knew if either one of us was going to wear them again, but they were special dresses and I didn’t want them to be stained and stinky forever.

I got some more job rejections and had another interview, but the company was a little too hardcore about pushing sales and memberships and even if they’d given me an offer, I wouldn’t have accepted. Plus, the pay was crap.

“No one wants to employ me,” I said, resting my head on my arm.

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