Wedding at King's Convenience by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child [Child, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Man-Woman Relationships, Contemporary, General, Romance, Adult, Fiction, Motion Pictures, Americans, Ireland, Billionaires, Pregnant Women
ISBN: 9780373769780
Google: HgzpeTCTo5IC
Amazon: 0373769784
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

Seven

A few hours later, Cara asked, “Then what did he do?”

“He left.” Maura lifted a week-old lamb, cradled it against her chest, then held a baby bottle out for it. Instantly, the tiny, black-and-white creature latched on to the rubber nipple and began tugging at it. Maura smiled even as she tried to ignore her sister’s interrogation.

Naturally, Cara wouldn’t leave the thing alone even when Maura insisted she didn’t want to speak about it. The only thing she could do now was hope to finish the conversation as quickly as possible.

“He just left? He didn’t propose?”

Maura laughed at that notion, more to cover up her own disappointment than anything else. Until that very afternoon, she’d had dreams. Fantasies you might say, during the weeks when she was trying so futilely to get hold of the Great One himself. She’d imagined him going down on bended knee, here in this very barn. She’d pictured him proposing and, in her frustration with his ignoring her or so she’d thought, she’d pictured herself telling him no. After all, he’d been ignoring her for months, so she’d imagined the stunned surprise on his face as she told him what he could do with his belated proposal.

Then he’d shattered that lovely dream by not even bothering to give her a duty proposal. She frowned to herself and realized just how hard it was to love a man who had no idea how she felt.

“No,” she said tightly. “He didn’t propose and it’s not likely to happen anytime soon.”

“Why ever not?” Cara wanted to know. “He’s given you a baby, the least he can do is make you a wife.”

Maura chuckled in spite of the situation. “You know, for someone who claims to be a very modern woman of the world, you sounded remarkably like an old grandmother just then.”

Cara frowned. “Being modern is one thing. Watching my sister be a single mother is another altogether. Besides, Maura, you love him.”

Maura’s gaze snapped to her sister, who was looking tired and near half-asleep. And why shouldn’t she? Cara was balancing a waitressing job in Westport while coming back to the farm nearly every day to film her small role in Jefferson’s movie. Her sister was smart, talented and far too knowing about some things.

“I’ll thank you to keep that piece of news to yourself,” Maura told her. “Besides, I’ll not have his pity and that’s all it would be if he pretended to love me now. Or worse yet, if he were appalled at the notion. So mind your tongue, Cara.”

Clearly insulted, Cara drew her head back as if she’d been slapped. “As if you need tell me. I’m your sister, aren’t I? Would I side with a Yank against my own blood?”

Mollified a bit, Maura nodded and put her attention back to the task at hand. She could learn to forget him, she told herself. She would content herself in the future with her farm and her child and one day, the man she loved would be no more than a fond memory she indulged in on lonely nights.

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