Deveraux, Jude - Twin 02 by Twin of Fire

Author:Twin of Fire
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The reception was worse than Blair had imagined it could be. People were always running out of this or that and, the minute Houston was out of sight, no one seemed to know what to do. And then, there were what seemed to be hundreds of Lee’s relatives to meet, all of them asking questions about the unusual exchanging of twins. Opal began spreading the rumor that Houston’s husband had taken her away on a white horse (probably one with wings, Blair thought), and all the young ladies were whispering that Kane was the most romantic of men. All Blair could think of was that she was certainly glad that her switch had failed and she wasn’t going to have to spend her wedding night with Taggert.

Some man was asking Blair how he should serve what looked to be a hundred-pound wheel of cheese when she looked across the guests to see Leander watching her, and a small blush began to spread over her body. Whatever else she minded about Lee, spending the night with him was not one of them.

He pushed his way through the crowd of people, gave a few curt directions to the man with the cheese, and pulled Blair away with him into the garden, out of sight of the people. “Thank heavens a man only has to go through this once in his life. Did you know that Mr. Gates is crying?”

She felt good being here with him in the shade, away from the noise and the crowd, and she wished he’d kiss her. “He’s probably happy to see the last of me in his house.”

“He told me that now he could relax, because now he knew you’d be happy. Now, you were going to do what the Lord made women for. You’d have a good man—that’s me—to take care of you, and at last you’d be fulfilled.”

He was looking at her in a way that made her feel very warm.

“You think youwill be fulfilled with me?” he asked in a husky whisper and began to move toward her.

“Dr. Westfield! Telegram!” came the voice of a boy, and the next minute he was standing there, shattering their aloneness.

Leander gave the boy a nickel and told him to help himself to the food as he began to open the telegram, his eyes on Blair. But the next minute, all his attention was on the paper in front of him.

“I’ll wring her neck,” he said under his breath, his face beginning to turn red with anger.

Blair took the telegram from his hand.

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I HAVE JUST MARRIED ALAN HUNTER STOP WOULD YOU TELL FATHER AND BLAIR

STOP I WILL RETURN IN THREE WEEKS STOP DO NOT BE TOO ANGRY STOP LOVE

NINA

“Of all the underhanded…,” Lee began. “Father and I will go after her and—.”

Blair cut him off. “And do what? She’s already married and, besides, what’s wrong with Alan? I thought he’d make a very good husband.”

Quickly, the anger left Leander. “I guess he will at that.

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