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She left, her steps echoing on the flagstone floor. Husband and wife. Husband and wife. She heard it every time she took one step, then another.
But it was not real. None of it was real.
She had been fooled before, into believing she was a daughter when she was simply a convenience.
She couldn’t let attraction, gold necklaces and the lies of her own heart blind her to the fact this was no different.
Not a wife.
A convenience.
She had to do her best to remember that.
CHAPTER NINE
WHATSURPRISEDATHENAthe most was the manner in which they traveled. And she didn’t think that it should surprise her. It wasn’t as if Cameron was going to get on a commercial plane. But for some reason, it seemed odd that this man who went nowhere, procured a private jet to take them to Paris.
It was luxurious, not unlike the private plane she had flown on for the very first time with her family only a couple of weeks ago.
It occurred to her then, that she was about to be out in the real world for the first time ever.
And that she had no idea if her family was looking for her.
As the plane descended, her anxiety began to mount.
“Are there news stories about me being missing?”
He looked at her. “There must not be. Apollo would’ve said.”
She nodded. “That speaks volumes to the fact that my father does not know how to put out such information. I really mustnotexist to the outside world.”
“All the more reason this is important.”
He had tied his long hair back away from his face, and it gave her an even better view of his eyes. She was struck again by how beautiful they were.
When he had spoken his vows to her...she had grown... Lost in them. In him.
And when they had been dancing...he’d asked her...
She felt a flush of embarrassment.
She was not stupid. She was twenty-eight years old, she might never have had an opportunity to be held by a man, but she did understand desire.
She’d been too shocked, too ashamed to admit it.
That being held by him, that the feel of his large, warm hands on her curves, the scent of him, the way that he was so solid, like a wall of granite, had begun to create a stirring sensation between her thighs.
And he was hers now. Her husband.
Her husband...
Not real.
And yet her attraction to him was. So didn’t that matter?
She had to remember that she had jumped out of a moving car to start a new life, and while she knew this... Cameron, was not her final destination, did that mean she couldn’t want him?
Did it mean she couldn’t have him?
