Then Comes Marriage
Chapter One
Humming "Here Comes the Bride" to bolster her flagging spirits, Honor Witherspoon marched toward the emphatically closed gate in the twelve-foot-high rock wall surrounding the home of her brand-new husband.
There was some doubt in her mind that he would let her in.
Honor blamed that doubt on the grim set to the groom's hard mouth and the icy green of his eyes during the brief ceremony at the courthouse that morning. Or maybe it was because of his obvious impatience with the county clerk, who then took her time faxing the proof of marriage Honor's father had required.
Certainly the doubt's seed had flowered when Honor had volunteered to retrieve her belongings from her small rented cottage alone. So as not to inconveruence her husband any further, she'd explained at her most charming. If she'd expected him to politely insist he accompany her (and she had), then his instant grunt of agreement would have rendered immediate disappointment -- except that she refused to acknowledge so negative an emotion.
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