Married for One Reason Only by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-05-11T12:31:20+00:00

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“Max” was Madame Estelle’s personal designer. He tailored the entire family and had a full team offering an array of spa services from the cabanas around the pool.

Vijay was led there by the head of security after he and Oriel had made their rounds together.

Oriel had retired to her room by then, and Vijay hoped she was resting. He had thought her parents had taken the news as well as possible, but she’d seemed very withdrawn after.

He was concerned about her, but after walking the estate and getting a true sense of her family’s net worth, he was concerned about them.

Back when he’d proposed to Wisa, he’d thought they were on the same level of wealth and privilege. As it turned out, his family’s wealth had been ill-gotten. The fallout of discovering that had contributed to their extremely ugly breakup.

Vijay had had to start over. He was extremely comfortable now, but even though he was evolved enough not to feel threatened by the idea of a woman making more money than he did, he couldn’t help being aware he would never catch up to Oriel if she stood to inherit all of this and all of Lakshmi’s wealth. It shouldn’t matter in a relationship, but it would always have the potential to.

Despite that, he kept coming around to their marriage being inevitable. He wasn’t so rich in family that he could afford to let his own child be raised away from him. Oriel seemed equally devoted to being a full-time parent. That meant at least living together.

He wanted marriage, though, and not for entirely logical reasons. Wisa had proved to him that a ring didn’t ensure fidelity, but the vows and formality of marriage were something he would take seriously. He wanted that stability for their child, but he wanted it for himself, too. And he couldn’t help thinking that making those promises to each other would go a lot further in earning each other’s trust than keeping their options open.

Could they make a marriage work, though? The differences in their backgrounds became even more obvious as Max asked him to remove the tuxedo he’d just tried on so it could be altered on the spot.

While he waited, Vijay’s beard was sculpted and his hair trimmed. He was given a manicure for the first time in his life, even though he was also given gloves to wear. His shirt required cuff links, and gold ones appeared. The points of his white vest were a precise quarter-inch beneath the edge of his split-tailed jacket. The jacket’s lapels matched the satin stripe down his trouser seams. New shoes in his size fit perfectly over his fresh silk socks. His bow tie was snow white.

Vijay might have felt overdressed and pretentious, maybe even resentful of being forced to fit in, if he hadn’t looked so damned good.

He was directed to join the flock of penguins in the drawing room, where he noted that not all of the tuxedo-wearers were men. Vijay

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