Rush to the Altar by Rebecca Winters

Author:Rebecca Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2003-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE next week passed in a blur of preparations orchestrated by Callie who was crazy about Riley. Ann had no desire to buy any new clothes, but her sister insisted she do some shopping to augment her wardrobe. They found her wedding dress on Wednesday.

“I can tell you one thing, Annabelle Lassiter. You’re not going to be married in jeans and an old top the way I was!” Her sister was emphatic about that. “This white chiffon is dreamy and looks like it was made for you.”

Ann liked it well enough. The last thing she wanted was a traditional bridal gown with a train. Riley would find it mockable.

The normal length chiffon with the high neck and long sleeves would do fine. Handing the saleswoman her credit card, she said she’d take it.

“I think a garland of orange blossoms would be perfect for your hair.”

“I’m glad you said that because I didn’t plan to wear a veil.”

Callie smiled. “I guess the shopping’s done. Have you thought of something to give Riley for a wedding present?”

“N-not yet,” she stammered. He’d probably laugh at anything she picked out. Ann would never forget what he’d said to her.

I don’t want to marry you, either, but it’s the only way I’d take a woman like you to bed.

She’d never forgive him for blackmailing her into submission…

“Well, as long as my mother-in-law is willing to keep Anna for the whole day, let’s pick up lunch somewhere and eat it at Nicco’s office. He’ll have a good suggestion.”

Ann hadn’t spent five minutes with Riley since the morning he’d forced her into telling the family they were getting married. According to Nicco he was at the plant’s test track during the day, then he rode his new street bike back to the barge alone after hours.

He’d purchased a cell phone and would call her in the evenings. Their conversations were abysmally short since Ann had little to say to him.

Callie had insisted Ann get a cell phone, too. Once they lived on the barge, it was the only way the two sisters would be able to stay in touch with each other.

Riley’s excuse to Ann for not getting together with her boiled down to the fact that he was busy taking care of plans for their wedding dinner and couldn’t trust himself to be alone with his intended bride.

She knew better.

He was having a weeklong bachelor party with some gorgeous woman he’d met. It would serve him right if Ann drove out to the river to surprise him, but she never managed to get up the nerve. The thought of discovering another female in residence, even if it was temporary, was too painful to contemplate.

It didn’t take long to reach Nicco’s office from the shopping arcade on the Via Roma. The thought of seeing Riley caused Ann’s heart to beat too fast the whole way there, but it almost flatlined when Nicco happened to mention that Riley had gone out of town on personal business and wouldn’t be back until Saturday.

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