Once Bitten
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Some time later they came up for air.
'I think you've proved otherwise,' he murmured into her hair. 'Judy, I do love you so. I'm willing to wait as long as you need, but I would like a wedding as soon as possible. As soon as your father can walk you down the aisle without having to use a stick. Before your parents go home to Spain. And then we will go to somewhere hot and romantic for our honeymoon. I've a friend with a villa on a small, unknown Carribean island. He wants me to build another house for his parents to retire to, and would lend me the villa while I make plans. How does that sound?'
'Perfect,' Judy sighed. 'Just perfect.'
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THE END
Marina Oliver has written over 60 novels, and has converted most of them to ebooks. Others have been or are being published as ebooks by other publishers.
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If you have enjoyed Once Bitten you might like this story about a different form of art – gardening:-
The Garden Prize
By Marina Oliver
Melanie is determined to win the Garden Prize for her dead father's garden, which was his great joy. She resigns her London job as a florist to run The Old Grange guest house for a year, so that the garden can be judged on the three weeks the village gardens open to visitors.
Her former boss Michael offers her a partnership and marriage, her sister Angela wants her to see the house quickly, and unknown vandals attack her garden.
A guest, Paul Hunt, is sympathetic and helpful, but he is mysterious. Can she trust him?
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