Название: Keir O'connell's Mistress
Автор: Sandra Marton
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
isbn: 9781408941119
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Swift as a heartbeat, an image flickered in his mind. He saw a woman in a long, old-fashioned gown that clung to her lush curves with each whisper of the wind…
“Hell,” he said, and blanked his thoughts to everything but his mother’s wedding.
Promptly at noon, he stood with his brothers and sisters at one side of the altar. Mary had insisted that all her daughters and sons give her away. Dan’s grown children stood near their father. Everyone was smiling.
Smiling—and quietly weeping.
Keir could hear his sisters sniffling into their lace hankies. He glanced at his brothers. Their eyes glittered in a way that told him their throats were as tight with emotion as his.
“…pronounce you man and wife,” the justice of the peace said.
Dan took Mary in his arms. Keir hugged his brothers, kissed his sisters…and suddenly found himself scanning the room filled with family and friends for a glimpse of a woman with sea-green eyes and coal-black hair.
She wasn’t there. Why would she be? And why should he be looking for her? There wasn’t a reason in the world to see her ever again.
“Keir,” his mother said.
He turned and took the duchess in his arms.
“I’m happy for you, Ma.” Dan held out his hand and Keir shook it. “I’m happy for you both.”
Mary laid her hand against his cheek. “You’re leaving soon, aren’t you?”
Keir drew a breath. “Yes. Tomorrow.” He smiled at Dan. “Now that I know you’re safe in good hands, and happy.”
“I want you to be happy, too, Keir,” Mary said softly.
“I already am.”
His mother’s eyes filled. “You need something more.”
Hours later as he packed, Keir thought about what his mother had said, and wondered if she was right.
CHAPTER FOUR
Bradley Airport, Connecticut, six weeks later:
CASSIE’S plane touched down on the runway just as the first bolt of lightning tore the sky apart.
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