The Bridal Promise by Virginia Dove

Author:Virginia Dove
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

Six

Could they become a family? Could it be done through sheer force of will? Matt pondered such questions as he watched his mother-in-law go about Gledhill’s miniature graveyard without so much as a glance in his direction. After placing a Sonia rose on the marker inscribed Stone Baby 1899, Janie Stone dusted off her hands and moved back to her car. Matt stood on the front porch and watched her departure, contemplating exactly what he was going to do about the newest abyss between himself and his wife.

So. What does this baby mean to a six-month marriage? he wondered as he journeyed up the stairs. Turning toward the bedroom, Matt realized he knew the answer to at least one of the questions drifting around in his mind. He didn’t want his marriage to end in six months. He wanted them to continue on as a family.

Being Matt Ransom, he didn’t pause to reflect on why he might want to keep Perri as his wife. Instead, his finely tuned skills at strategy quickly worked out how best to present this change of heart and get her to agree.

What kind of a husband can I be to her? Matt wondered as he entered the master bedroom. He paused as his gaze fell upon her. She didn’t look particularly delighted to see him.

Turning to search his face for answers of her own, Perri said nothing. She grimly stood by the brass bed and watched him remove the sportcoat he had worn for their appointment with the doctor. His dress shirt had made its way to the doorknob of the closet before she finally found her voice. “I am not thrilled about this,” she stated, gesturing around the room.

The man had already given her such a headache, just looking at him hurt. Perri gingerly lifted the back of her neck. If she could just get the pain at the back of her head to let up, maybe the pounding in her temples would lessen as well.

Perri scolded herself into not throwing something at him. Matt had been careful, even methodical, she noted as she looked around. He hadn’t just dumped her stuff in his room. He had paid attention to what he was doing with her property when he’d moved her things out of the little bedroom facing the backyard.

He had certainly been busy in the interval between the doctor’s and Sam’s. Even the humidor for his occasional cigars had thoughtfully disappeared. Matt had truly made an effort to subdue his own presence upon the space.

Some thought had gone into the way he had hung her clothes in his closet, and how he’d carefully placed her clock and journal on top of the nightstand. It looked as if a swift but determined effort had been made to create a shared bedroom.

“Perhaps you’d be kind enough to explain why my things have been moved in here,” she stated waspishly. “Is this your subtle way of telling me that we’re going to be sleeping together?” Now her shoulders were beginning to throb.

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