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Slanting hi down the silk chiffon of her wedding dress and i it from her body very soon

He walked over to her side and offered her his arm as he took her over to the , for he had not been oblivious to her pale fidgeting throughout the meal ‘You seem a little distracted, Catherine,’ he murmured

Unseeingly, she gazed out at the perfectly ardens and told herself not to react If Catherine he wanted her to be—then Catherine she would be Hadn’t she learnt her lesson over that particular quibble?

‘Do I? Well, it’s been a pretty overwhel experience,’ she answered truthfully, and then lowered her voice so that only he could hear her next remark—because surely a new bride was allowed a little coquetry with her husband, no matter how exalted his position ‘And I just can’t wait to be alone with you’

‘Neither can I’ He didn’t miss a beat as he saw her lips part ‘But you er’

‘P-patient?’ She turned her eyes up to him in bewilderment ‘You mean there is some other sort of c-celebration we must attend?’

‘Hardly a celebration,’ said Xaviero, his voice hardening ‘Now that you are my wife, protocol de When the meal is ended, ill be driven to the hospital’

‘Y-your brother? But…’

He raised his dark brows ‘But what?’

‘Your brother’s in a coed her shoulders—aware of the weight of the pearlencrusted bodice and the tiara still in her hair ‘Does it…does it have to be today?’

‘You mean, he won’t knoon’t care when I introduce him to my new bride—that we could wait a year and he wouldn’t notice?’