The Wedding Date
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“Maybe he couldn’t read your handwriting.” He grinned, and accepted the slightly indignant look she sent him. “Do you really think I’m your perfect match?”
“My heart seems to think so.” Her whisper lowered even more. “And when you’re around the rest of me goes up in flames.”
He took her hand and kissed her open palm, adding just the briefest, lightest of licks. His reward was the catch in her breath and the tingling heat that raced through his body and pooled in his thighs.
Emma’s eyes held a teasing glint. “Shall we make a leisurely stop in my room before the reception?”
Her room, Trick thought. Broad daylight. There’d be no hiding the scars anymore. He disentangled their hands.
At the front of the chapel, the bride and groom were doing a candle lighting thing, while the organ played some meandering type of music. Maybe this wasn’t the time or place, but he had to tell her before the bedroom.
“Emma, about ten years ago, a shark attacked me….
She nodded. “Pauline told me. How horrible. Do you want to talk about it?”
“Uh, well, it left me with some scars….”
Now she appeared absorbed by the action up front. She leaned close to him. “The ones on your leg?”
“Uh, yeah.” The ones on your leg, she says, just like they’re a couple of pimples. “You felt them?”
Her eyes remained on the bride and groom. “Uhhuh.”
“And you didn’t say anything?” His voice rose a little, but thank God the organist chose that moment to add some crescendo to the music.
She looked into his eyes. “Why should I? They don’t matter to me. You didn’t say anything about the birthmark on my hip.”
Trick sputtered.
He started thinking in exclamation points again.
The scars didn’t matter to her!
And suddenly, the scars seemed a lot less important to him!
“Emma,” he whispered. “I do love you.”
And he was mad as hell that he’d missed that birthmark!
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THE WEDDING DATE
Copyright © 1996 by Christie Ridgway
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Excerpt
Dear Reader
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