by Linda Bridey
Seth smiled. “Yeah, I could hear you getting off kilter once in a while.”
“Can you blame me?” Luke said.
“Nope. Now get out of here and enjoy yourselves the rest of the evening,” Seth said.
Luke and Jamie were happy to comply. Joe took a break from singing and stole Jamie away so he could dance with her.
“Now look, darlin’, just because you’re married now doesn’t mean we can’t still have our nights out, you know,” he told her.
Jamie smiled up into his hazel eyes. “Oh don’t worry. I’m not going to be one of those women who become a boring housewife. Although, when I get pregnant, I won’t be drinking. Which I need to slow down on that anyway,” she said.
“Yeah, that might be a good idea,” Joe said. “But we can still make some money together.”
“Deal. And it’ll be even more fun because Hercules will be coming with me,” Jamie said.
“Oh, jeez,” Joe said with a roll of his eyes. “Here I thought I’d still have ya’ll all to myself.”
“Nope. Sorry,” Jamie said. “If I come, so does he.”
“Fine,” Joe said with an exaggerated sigh. He kissed her cheek as the dance ended and gave her back to her husband.
Jamie swayed to the music with Luke and put her head on his chest. He held her close and inhaled her rose-like scent.
“Did you have a good time, honey?” he asked.
“The best,” Jamie said as she listened to his heartbeat. “How about you?”
“Same here. How would you like to start our honeymoon now?” Luke said.
Jamie smiled and said, “That sounds fantastic to me.”
“Let’s go.”
As they drove one of Dean’s buggies away, well-wishers sent them off with shouts and clapping. Jamie turned around and kept blowing them kisses. Then she and Luke disappeared from view as they turned a corner.
Joe had been doing a lot of thinking that day. He and his father had had a particularly volatile argument that had almost resulted in blows. If their butler, Randall, hadn’t interfered, there probably would have been a fistfight. Tired of waiting for his inheritance, Joe had come to a decision. He found Marcus and drew him aside.
“What’s up, Joe?” Marcus asked.
Joe appeared a little nervous, which Marcus thought was unusual for him.
Joe took a deep breath and said, “So tell me how this mail-order bride thing works.”
The End
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Westward Fortune (Montana Mail Order Brides #5)
Lacey Reagan’s father, Amos, is a violent alcoholic who takes out his frustrations on his daughter. Lacey knows it’s only a matter of time until he kills her, so when an opportunity arises to run away, she takes it. After answering a mail-order-bride advertisement out of desperation, a gallant stranger offers her his assistance in escaping her life of fear and misery.
Joe Dwyer, family friend to Luke Samuels and company, receives Lacey’s frantic plea for help, and can’t ignore it. The playboy with a heart of gold provides Lacey with the means to make the trip from North Dakota to Montana, but doesn’t have entirely altruistic motives. In order to gain his inheritance and get rid of his own hated father, Joe needs a wife.
When they meet, neither of them intends for their relationship to be anything other than a business arrangement, but as they get to know each other that begins to change. Tragedy strikes, threatening to break their hearts and destroy the bliss they’ve found with each other. With their future together on the line, Lacey and Joe must decide if they have what it takes to make their marriage one that’s real or keep it just business between them.
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First Printing, 2014