Sneak Peek Excerpt
We say a quick goodbye, and to my shock, the instant I
push the “end” button, Chris pulls the 911 to the shoulder of the road, puts it
in park and turns to me. “Talk to me. What just happened?”
You stopped to ask me what happened?”
“Yes. I stopped to ask what happened. Now, tell me.”
My lashes lower a moment as I savor just how good this man
is to me. I curl my fingers on my cheek. “Thank you for stopping, but really,
there was nothing worthy of concern. Let’s go to the chateau.”
“After you tell me what happened,” he orders, but the
tenderness lacing the stubborn determination of his tone wins me over, as does
his sincerity. He really cares and I am truly not alone anymore.
“When Katie wanted to know if there was anyone on my side
of the family to coordinate with, it hit a nerve. I started worrying about
Ella, and thinking about my father, who I don’t want to come to our wedding. I
truly don’t, yet somehow, the very fact
that I don’t gives him the power to twist me in knots.”
Chris nods. “As did my father to me, no matter how much of
a bastard he became. Sometimes I think the worse he treated me, the more I
wanted to win back his affection.”
I’d seen glimpses of these feelings before now, but this
is the first time he’s spoken them aloud. “Maybe it’s some inborn need to feel
close to a parent?”
“That’s the only conclusion I could come to when I
couldn’t let him go. I still can’t. He’s always with me, making sure I stay
just a little more fucked up.”
“If you’re fucked up, it’s all kinds of right, Chris
Merit. That charity work Tristan talked about? You don’t just throw money at
it. You give pieces of your soul to those kids and their families. You make a
difference and I’ll be honored to help you do it.”
He pulls my hand to his mouth and kisses my fingers.
“Let’s elope. Anyplace you want to go. Say the word and as far as I’m concerned
we’ll go tomorrow.”
“What? No. We decided on Katie and Mike’s place together. And my ring isn’t even
done.”
“This isn’t about a ring. Or Katie and Mike, or anyone
else. It’s about us and I don’t want you worried about your father or the guest
list. You know I’m not big on attention anyway.”
I lace my fingers with his. “You’re trying to protect me
and I appreciate that, but I want to get married under those hanging rose your
mother inspired Katie to plant.”
“Don’t do this for me, baby. I just want to spend the rest
of my life with you. That’s all I need.”
“It’s for us. You know my father is just a hot button for
me. I’ll get by it. And truth be told, I’m a little raw over Amber, too. That
night here in Paris when I went to the club I had this sense I needed to save
her. I shouldn’t have listened to that feeling.”
“Don’t do that to yourself. You barely knew her.”
“Yet, on some level I felt her screaming for help. But I
second-guessed myself and thought it was Rebecca and Ella influencing my
feelings.”
“You were a lot of the reason I pushed to get Amber help, Sara.
It was just too little too late. That’s on me, not you.”
“No-”
“Yes,” he says, stroking the hair out of my eyes, his hand
staying at the back of my head. “Now here’s what’s going to happen. We’re going
to leave this all right here and I’m going to drive us the fifteen minutes we
have left to get to the chateau, where we’re going to fuck like rabbits. Then,
we’re going to eat and fuck some more. After we sleep, we’ll set some rules
with Katie about the wedding so you won’t worry about it and then we’ll fuck
some more. And since I had the caretaker that lives in the house behind the
chateau stock enough food to last us a week, we can stay in bed for days on
end. Any objections so far?”
I smile and not just at his words, but at his rapid shift
from dark Chris, to playful, sexy Chris. “And if I do?”
He, leans closer to me, his breath on my ear. “I’ll just
tie you to the bed.”
Yes. Please. My list of objections begins to form.
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