by Ravenna Tate
They should have changed the trust. They should have given this mess to someone else. Three grown men, and together they had as much business sense as a field mouse. How the hell they had kept it going this long was a mystery. Lynda didn’t need an MBA from Harvard, like Merrick had, to tell her that much.
At first, she had refused to marry him. She had insisted her father and uncles find another way to save it. But her father told her the three had tried everything and this was their last hope. It still had taken him three months to convince her he had exhausted all possible options.
In the end, despite the objections she’d raised along the way, and the alternatives she’d suggested, guilt and obligation had won out. She was good at that—becoming overwhelmed by guilt and obligation. In fact, one could say that was one of her greatest talents.
Lynda sighed as the expression on Merrick’s face changed from lustful to doubtful. He thought she was going to bolt. She could read it in his eyes. No. She wouldn’t do that. This was truly the last resort for the company that had been in her family for three generations. She couldn’t let it go under. Family was family, after all, even if they were fucked up, and even if she was fucked up to give a shit about them. And she could do far worse for a husband than Merrick Dalton.
He leaned close, brushed his lips against her veil, and whispered in her ear, “Lynda, everyone is waiting.”
She gave him a quick smile to hide the tremor that coursed through her body at the intimacy of that whisper. As she did, she caught the doubt and resignation in his eyes. He didn’t want this marriage anymore than she did. He only wanted Shelton Energy. Her father had also made that clear enough, and she had no reason to believe it wasn’t true.
Lynda climbed the last few steps and prepared to go through with the biggest sham of her life.
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