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But he’d had his chance with her and wrecked it, Merry res or proper relationships outside his own faly seductive about proud, arrogant Angel asking her to give him another chance
She decided to give hi
One LAST chance
YES! WE HAVE A DEAL!
Angel texted back with amusement and an intense sense of achievement
He had won He had gained his daughter, the precious chance to bring Elyssa into his life instead of losing her In addition, he would be gaining a wife, a very unusual wife, who didn’t want his money Another man would have celebrated that reality but, when it ca out for hidden motives and secret objectives Woot involved and never dipped below the shallow surface with his lovers…and Merry was infinitely more complicated than the kind of women he was familiar with
Could such a e work?
Only tiravity No other women, he pondered abstractedly Well, he hadn’t been prepared for that dee while intending the unionasmore personal After all, he knew several couples who contrived to lead separate lives below the saether for the sake of their children or to protect their wealth fro more emotional was involved
In reality, Angel had never seen anything positive about the e was that it was generally disastrous and extremely expensive His own mother’s infidelity had ensured that his parents had parted by the tirandparents had enjoyed an equally cala in separate wings of the sael’s attitude softened by the nu spouses he had el had automatically assumed that he would never marry
But, self-evidently, Merry had a very different take on e and parenthood, a much more conventional take than a cynical and distrustful Valtinos Here she was deh it was the very bedrock of stability Andon the constant turht equally hard about the little scene of apparent dolimpsed at his cousin’s house, where a husband rushed into his horeet a wife and children wholi vision of another world that had never been visible to him before, a e
And Merry, it see personal, very personal, rather than practical as he had envisioned Beneath his brother’s exasperated gaze, Angel lounged back in his dining chair, his meal untouched, and for the first ti brilliance at the prospect of acquiring a wife and a wedding ring…