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His tender expression turned to stone and he stood up quickly from the sofa “There are plans to be made I want to be married a week from today”
“So quickly? What about my dress, the church—”
“I will take care of it”
She didn’t argue She supposed a billionaire could pull together a wedding on nothing notice Money talked, or so they said “I’ out my own dress”
He shrugged “As you like”
He turned toward the phone, all signs of his loverlike countenance gone
“Dimitri?”
He pivoted to face her “Yes?”
“This is what you want?”
He laughed harshly “I a more”
“But I thought you wanted to get married” Had she co to was the knowledge that he wanted her Had last night satisfied that craving?
“I do” His eyes blazed certainty at her
“But you seem unhappy now that I’ve said yes”
He came back and pulled her up and into his arms “I am not unhappy, pethinow that you have agreed”
It made sense and she had no fears while his arht”
He turned her toward the bedroonant ladies need their rest”
She went, feeling comforted He’d pointed her in the direction of his bedrooe of sleep that she realized he had once again sidestepped the issue of his parents
Di What had he expected, that she would say she was reed He should not bemoan the fact it had been for the child’s sake alone
He would convince her to trust hiain He would show her that what they had had in Paris could be theirs again The affection The fun The rapport And once she saw that he would never dislow in his presence
At least he’d kept this prorandfather
“You are nervous, yineka mou Why?”
Alexandra shifted the yards of fabric in her wedding dress’s skirt an inch to the left on the li to be a lot people at the reception”
Which was an understateed to invite an obscene nu for the reception…including Dimitri’s brother, Spiros, and his wife Phoebe
“You have er crowd”
True But the crowd had never included Dimitri’s ex-fiancée and brother “Does Spiros think I’m an awful tramp?”
Diry blue fire “Why should you think this? Do you feel like this e has made you one?”
She wondered how Died the Petronides Corporation so effectively with his lousy communication skills “Of course I don’t feel like a tramp because I married you It’s just that your brother’s read those awful articles I’m sure he blames me for Phoebe’s humiliation”
“My brother does not blame you”
She waved Dimitri’s words aside “Don’t be ridiculous Who else would he blame? I was the other woman even if I didn’t know it He had to marry Phoebe to save the family honor I bet he hates me,” she wailed