Married in Name Only by Jules Bennett

Author:Jules Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-04-10T13:57:50+00:00

Eleven

“What do you say we go away?”

Angela Perry slid her arms up around Ryder Currin’s neck and threaded her fingers through his hair. She worried so much about the turmoil surrounding her family. But she and Ryder needed a chance to just be themselves without all the rest of the messy outside world getting in.

She was falling for him and she needed him to realize this was serious for her. Could they have a future together even though he was much older and his family and hers had been rivals for decades?

The rivalry didn’t matter to her, though it mattered heavily to her father. Angela couldn’t live her life to please her father.

Sterling had been released from prison last night and Angela feared they’d go back into a verbal sparring match over her relationship with Ryder. She’d yet to visit him. While she fully believed in her father’s innocence, she wanted him to understand that he couldn’t control who she wanted to spend her time with.

“Just the two of us,” she went on, loving how Ryder wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close. “Maybe fly to the mountains and get a cozy cabin. Or, if you prefer me in a skimpy suit, we could go to the beach.”

Ryder pulled in a deep breath, and she knew from that second of hesitation that he would make an excuse or give a justifiable reason why they shouldn’t go. She didn’t want to hear all the reasons why this might be a bad idea. All she cared about was why they should escape and put their relationship above all else. But she didn’t want to argue in the few stolen moments they had together.

“It’s okay,” she quickly continued. “I know there’s so much going on and it’s—”

“Not that I don’t want to,” he interjected. “I’d love nothing more than to get away with you for a few days and forget we have a whole host of issues.”

“Then let’s do it,” she urged. “What’s a few days? I swear, every issue will be waiting for us when we return, so we might as well ignore them for a bit.”

Ryder reached up and smoothed her hair from her face. The wind kicked up and wrapped them in the evening summer air. What she wouldn’t give to be somewhere else with him right this moment instead of in Houston where her father was out on bail and no doubt ready to fight, where there was an unidentified dead body that her father was framed in the murder of, and where the whole financial scheme seemed to touch everyone she knew.

When her father caused a mess, he caused a hell of a disaster. She honestly didn’t believe he had killed someone—he wasn’t vicious. He might be egotistical and greedy, but he wasn’t a killer. Still, he had that black cloud looming over him, and she couldn’t help but worry the drama would trickle down onto her.

The feud between her father and her lover...

Angela closed her eyes and rested her head in the crook of Ryder’s neck.

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