The Demetrios Bridal Bargain
“Following the lead of the heavy-set grey-haired figure, presumably Andreos Demetrios, at the head of the table the men rose courteously as Rose approached.It would seem he had taken Mathieu’s demands to heart.Rose carried on smiling—it could be that the pasted smile might have to be surgically removed at a later date—as Mathieu made the introductions.It was always hard walking into a room of strangers. Walking into a room of strangers when you were pretending to be someone you weren’t raised th...e stress stakes a hundredfold. But she was not, Rose realised, nearly as nervous about being the focus of six pairs of critical eyes as she was at the thought of being alone with Mathieu once dinner was over.What was she going to say?Andreos gave her a hard assessing glance. She smiled faintly back. If she hadn’t been so distracted by the scene in the bedroom still playing in her head she might have managed a token display of the deference that Mathieu’s powerful father obviously considered his due.Now of course she could think of a hundred responses ranging from amused to cuttingly sarcastic that would have left Mathieu in no doubt that she was not interested.Instead what had she done?MoreLess
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