Reluctant Honeymoon

By Samantha LeSaux

The reasons a woman falls in love are beyond man's power to comprehend. Take Charlotte who married George but didn't love him until…

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Romance Story Publishing
• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215991220

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The reasons a woman falls in love are beyond man's power to comprehend. Take Charlotte who married George but didn't love him until...

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AT least the ceremony didn’t take long. A few I wills and an I, Charlotte, take thee, George and she was Mrs. George Arbuthnot, with her face turned for his kiss. Not much of a kiss, but that probably didn’t matter. This wasn’t supposed to be the romance of the century— just Charlotte and George finally getting around to it.

The people at the reception had a charming way of rubbing it in. There were those who darn well knew the score—intimates of the family who assured her that this was a good, sensible marriage; relatives who squeezed her hand and said stanchly, You and George have the important things, Charlotte. Remember that; her friends and George’s who skipped the gooing and kidding of all the other weddings and played it safe with Have a good time down at Sea Island, kids and Give our love to Pete and Kay and Ginny and Chuck and Play a little golf for me, you lucky people—as if this were a farewell party instead of a wedding.

She stood there, feeling a mile high and pretty ridiculous in all that white satin, clutching her bouquet, smiling, smiling. Would they never stop coming? Only a hundred guests had been invited. What were they doing? Coming around twice?

Finally it was over. Finally she was upstairs in her room, changed into her going-away suit, bending to kiss her mother good-bye. Quite teary about it, too- and surprised, for she’d expected only relief. She supposed she really loved her mother. It was just that she didn’t like