Marriage & the Mermaid (Hapless Heroes)
“The sandwiches she’d had no appetite for at lunch had been supplemented by an afternoon cheese platter and a jug of mint julep which she’d insisted be non–alcoholic — no way was she drinking in front of Baz again. Ted had been conspicuously absent and Wynne was well past her momentary fear of him. From now on she’d be polite and charming in his presence, but that was all. It was blindingly obvious that Baz didn’t care what his father thought of his choices, so why should Wynne? In fact, she was... pretty damned sure Baz would walk away from the money for the woman he loved. She just had to make sure that woman was herself.So she enjoyed the glow of basking in the attention Baz was giving her while she listened to him relating obscure scientific facts, nodding in all the right places while the late afternoon breeze caressed her shoulders and bared legs. It was a refreshingly cool change after the steamy morning and the combination of her all’s–right–with–my–world warmed interior and cooled exterior conspired to make her feel quite languid.Soon it would be time to go inside and dress for dinner, and Wynne planned to knock Baz’s socks off tonight with her little blue cocktail dress.MoreLess
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