All Chapters of UNWANTED BRIDE : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Lila. The dinner party was hardly the intimate affair I had imagined it would be. There were at least two hundred of Manhattan’s most elite social movers in attendance, and it made it hard for me not to be grateful for the dress Jake’s efficient PA had provided for me at the last minute.It was too short and too tight for my taste, but judging by the similarly bedecked Barbie dolls that were hanging on their date’s arms the look was par for the course.Jake gave the stunning, Reed slim hostess a kiss on both cheeks before putting his hand on my back and introducing me. “This is my fiancée, Lila Moreno. Lila , this is Caroline Vance. She is the chairperson of the Andrew House charity.”“Nice to meet you.” I shook the other woman’s perfectly manicured hand, and held back the questions that were forming in my mind. Jake had never mentioned that he had a charity, but his fiancée would certainly know all about it. Well, a real fiancée would at any rate. I was clueless.“Nice to meet you t

Lila. I pulled away from him, my breathing labored, my body sluggish from the unfamiliar desire. He looked amused. It was infuriating. Even worse that he knew exactly how he had affected me.“Why do you pull away from it, Lila ?” he asked, his dark eyes compelling. Tempting.“From what?” Playing ignorant was pointless, and I knew it, but pride and a desperate need to gain some sort of control pushed me to try anyway.“From this.” He hooked his arm around my waist and drew me to him, tilting his hips so that I could feel the length of his hardened arousal.I drew in a shaky breath. “Because I don’t feel the same way.”He chuckled. “This isn’t about feelings. This is about lust. Want. Need. And you do feel it.” He stroked a thumb across my hot cheek. “It’s written all over your pretty face.”And just like that he was back in the slot I had placed him in at our first meeting. It was a relief. But it didn’t cause my own arousal to lessen.My breasts felt heavy, sensitive, and I felt an e

Jake. I had not slept good at all, the mystery of who she was was still eating me up. I was pacing around my office wondering undecided on what to do when I received a call from Tony. "I am sure you work fast, but the DNA results can't be out yet." I said as soon as I picked up. "No, it's not that, I have some news." he said, "Soni finally got hold of the security footage from six years ago, I know the mystery woman you slept with," he said, then went quiet as if to let the tensions rise. "So who was it?" "Its the same woman you are set to marry, Lila Moreno. It was her Bachelorette you crushed that night and it's safe to say you are the man that ruined her life and the father of her son, the DNA results will confirm that in a few hours.""Okay,thanks Tony." I said before hanging up. Did she know who I was? Or was this just all a coincidence. If she knew I was the father of her son she could have just sued me for child support instead of agreeing to a marriage with me, someone

Lila. I picked up the papers back up and rifled through them before setting them down again. “This is what I’m talking about!” I said annoyed, He looked at the offending lines I had highlighted out. “The infidelity clause?” he said acting surprised. “Is that its official title?” I had never been so angry in my entire life and that included the day I found out my sister was behind sabotaging me at my own wedding, “If I have an affair the deal is off, yet there are absolutely no limitations imposed on you! It’s a blatant, unrepentant double standard!”His dark eyes collided with mine; the heat of his gaze warmed my whole body. Rage was coursing through my veins, nearly blinding me with a red mist, and still he was making my body tingle with anticipation for something I didn’t even have a name for.“If that’s how you see it.” He shrugged in a classically arrogant manner.“I see it as protecting my…” he looked me over her in a way that made me squirm “…assets.”I crossed my arms ove

Lila. The wedding had become sort of much anticipated society event, despite how little time had passed between the announcement and the actual ceremony or maybe because of that reason. I couldn’t help but think that the haste of the marriage was part of what made it interesting. I felt half the eyes in the historic church examining my flat stomach speculatively as I walked down the long aisle.The air was heavy with the perfume of flowers, compliments of my overzealous wedding planner, and the late afternoon sun streamed through a round stained glass window, throwing squares of blue light onto the stone floor. It was a beautiful wedding.But it was someone else’s wedding. None of it was to my taste except for my simple dress. But none of that mattered. All that mattered was what would happen twelve months from this moment.When all this would be over and I would go back to living my simple life. Jake was standing at the top of the altar, I had never seen him look so handsome. His t