The Innocent's One-Night Proposal by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-11-15T19:03:02+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

GLORY DIDN’T SEE him the next morning. Breakfast was served out on the terrace where dinner had been the night before, but there was no sign of Castor when she sat down to eat.

However, there was a note.

Forgive my absence, but I have a few details to attend to this morning.

The marriage ceremony will be conducted tomorrow in the villa’s chapel—if you wish to see it, Nico will take you.

You may spend today as you like, but please be advised that I have leaked details of our wedding to the press so there may be some cameras around.

I will join you when I can.

C

Disappointment made her stomach dip, closely followed by a flare of uncharacteristic anger that made her screw the note up into a tight little ball and deposit it next to the ring box she’d left on the table the night before.

He was an ass, that’s what he was, and she shouldn’t have allowed him to get to her last night. Being honest with him, telling him she didn’t want to pretend either, had been a mistake, as had coming around the table to kiss him. She should have shrugged when he’d rejected her, when he’d told her it would never happen between them. She should have told him she didn’t care.

Yet she hadn’t. She couldn’t. She’d never been able to hide her hurt with Annabel either, when her sister had told her she was too busy to talk, too tired to help her with her homework and didn’t want to play any of her silly games. That she had more important things to do.

Annabel hadn’t had time for Glory’s hurts, and since she had enough on her plate already, Glory had decided that it was easier to keep quiet. Easier for her and easier for Annabel too.

So that’s what she’d done last night with Castor. She’d gone back to her seat and said nothing, too embarrassed and upset to even look at him. Then he’d simply got up and walked away without a word.

Was it her fault? Had she done something she shouldn’t? Misinterpreted him somehow? But then how could she have misinterpreted what he’d said when he’d been very clear about what he’d wanted?

‘All I can think about right now is whether you still want your virginity... Because if not, I’m quite happy to take it from you right here and now.’

Her. He’d wanted her. He’d said that.

Except he’d also said, ‘Not tonight. Not ever.’

Glory’s hands clenched into fists in her lap, hurt catching inside her.

She didn’t understand him. She didn’t understand why this was painful either. Because why did she care if he didn’t want to sleep with her? What did it matter? She’d told him back in LA that sex wasn’t on the table and told herself that she was fine with it. Besides, she hadn’t known him very long and he’d never promised her anything.

He just made her feel as if she was ten again, constantly pestering her sister for attention that Annabel was too tired to give.

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