Sneak
Peek Excerpt
Entering the kitchen, I find Chris
leaning on the marble countertop by the coffeepot, shirtless and in his pajama
bottoms, the long strands of his blond hair a wild, sexy mess I’m pretty sure I
created last night.
He glances up from the paper he’s
reading, then picks up his coffee cup. “Morning, Ms. McMillan.”
“Morning, Mr. Merit,” I reply, grinning
as I join him.
He offers me his coffee cup and I happily
accept it, taking a drink of the perfectly flavored coffee and creamer. Sharing
a cup with Chris has this sexy, intimate feel to it that always does funny
things to my belly.
“Your last day as a free woman,” he
comments.
“Why? Are you planning to tie me up
sometime soon?”
He covers my hands on his cup. “Is that
an objection, or wishful thinking?” He tilts the cup and drinks, his eyes never
leaving mine.
“I plead the Fifth. It’s more fun that
way.”
“That it is,” he agrees, but a sigh
follows. “I wish I could do the same, but you’d better look at the newspaper.”
He sets the cup on the counter, then hands me the Arts section of the local
paper.
Dread fills me as I read the headline:
“Acclaimed Artist and Philanthropist Chris Merit to wed Sara McMillan on
Valentine’s Day in Star-studded Event in Sonoma.” I set it down. “We went to so
much trouble to get the press off our backs before the wedding, and now they’ve
found us! I knew when all these famous people showed up on the guest list, it
was going to turn into a zoo.”
“Walker Security anticipated the press,
and they’re staffed and ready for it. It’ll be fine. We’ll be shielded.”
Nerves the size of birds, not
butterflies, attack my stomach.
“We should have eloped.”
“We still can. Let’s do it. Now. Today.”
“We can’t elope,” I say, sounding
appalled, as if he’d suggested it, not me. “People who respect you are coming a
long way to see us. And Katie has planned this for months.”
“Baby, we can do whatever we want. This
is our day.”
“No. We can’t. Not this far into this.
Which reminds me— you can’t stay here tonight. It’s bad luck to see the bride
the night before the wedding.”
“I told you how I feel about that. We
make our own luck.”
“Chris—”
He kisses me. “I’m staying here tonight,
and I’m fucking you like I won’t see you ever again, just to be sure you walk
down that aisle.”
“If you’re waiting for me at the end of
that aisle, I’ll be there. And if you’re staying here tonight, we can use
separate bedrooms.”
“Does today count as part of that
eve-of-the-wedding rule?”
“Yes.”
He scoops me up and I yelp. “What are you
doing?”
“I’m a renegade, baby.
Let’s go break the rules.”
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