Sugar and Spice
Chapter One
"Please." To her horror, Gwendolyn Farrell felt tears well up in her eyes. She blinked them back, not wanting Adam to see just how desperate she was. He could not refuse her. His refusal would toll the death knell of their marriage, a marriage that she was not willing to give up on. Not yet. Not until she had done everything humanly possible to win him back, to make him love her even just a tiny fraction as much as she loved him.
She gazed at the man in front of her, at the hard planes of his face and the even harder look in his eyes. Being married to him was supposed to be her dream come true. Instead, it had turned into a waking nightmare.
She swallowed convulsively. The very worst of it was that he was in no way to blame. Their estrangement, the utter desolation of their marriage, was all her fault.
"You want me to come away with you to a house in the country?" His lip curled into a sneer. "It sounds like hell."
"Would you not like to take a week's holiday out of the London fog and the miasma of the City?" Almost imperceptibly she inched closer to him, hoping to persu ... read full excerpt from: Sugar and Spice ebook
