Untamed Billionaire's Innocent Bride by Caitlin Crews

Author:Caitlin Crews [Crews, Caitlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474087834
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2019-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

BY MORNING SHE’D pulled herself together. The tears of the night before seemed to have happened to someone else. Someone far more fragile than Lauren had ever been, particularly in the crisp light of day. She showered in the bathroom off the executive suite, rinsing away any leftover emotion as well as the very long previous day, and changed into one of the complete outfits she kept at the office precisely for mornings like this.

Well. Perhaps not precisely like this. She didn’t often plan and execute her own wedding. She’d worn her highest, most impractical pair of heels as a kind of tribute. And she was absolutely not thinking—much less overthinking—about the many questionable bargains she’d made with the strange man she’d found in the forest.

She knocked briskly on the door to the corporate flat at half nine on the dot, aware as she did that she didn’t expect him to answer. A man as feral as Dominik was as likely to have disappeared in the night as a stray cat, surely—

But the door swung open. And Dominik stood there, dressed in nothing but a pair of casual trousers slung low on his hips, showing off acres and acres of...him.

For a moment—or possibly an hour—Lauren couldn’t seem to do anything but gape at him.

“Did you imagine I would run off in the night?” he asked, reading her mind yet again. And not the most embarrassing part, for a change. She tried to swallow past the dryness in her throat. She tried to stop staring at all those ridges and planes and astonishing displays of honed male flesh. “I might have, of course, but there were restrictions in place.”

She followed him inside the flat, down the small hall to the efficient kitchen, bright in the morning’s summer sunlight. “You mean the security guards?”

He rounded the small counter and then regarded her over his coffee, strong enough that she could smell the rich aroma and blacker than sin. “I mean, Lauren, the fact I gave you my word.”

Lauren had allowed sensation and emotion and all that nonsense to get the best of her last night, but that was over now. It had to be, no matter how steady that gray gaze of his was. Or the brushfires it kicked up inside her, from the knot in her belly to the heat in her cheeks. So she cleared her throat and waved the tablet she carried in his direction, completely ignoring the tiny little hint of something bright like shame that wiggled around in all the knots she seemed to be made of today.

“I’ve sorted everything out,” she told him, aware that she sounded as pinched and knotted as she felt. “We will marry in an hour.”

Dominik didn’t change expression and still, she felt as if he was laughing at her.

“And me without my pretty dress,” he drawled.

“The vicar is a friend of the Combe family,” she said as if she hadn’t heard him. And she had to order herself not to fuss with her own dress, a simple little shift that was perfect for the office.

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