The Wild Belle (26 page)

“In your sleep. You said you couldn’t wait to send me back to South Carolina.”

“Why would I want to send you back?”

“I don’t know. I guess so you can go whoring like you used to. I know I’m not a catch. Why do you think I never married? No man wants me, so why would you?”

“Have you lost your mind?”

“I guess I have, because I love a man who doesn’t want me!”

Michael lowered his tone. “Why haven’t you said so before?”

“I have showed you. What more do you want?” Andi asked in frustration.

“Just to hear it,” Michael softly replied.

Andi looked around the room. She had forgotten they were surrounded by his family.

“No point in doing this in private,” Nicholas said. “You have already shouted it from the rooftops. And if we leave, the women will just press their ears to the door. Please don’t ask Madison to do so. She is so clumsy when she’s expecting.”

“I heard that,” Madison stated.

“I know.”

“You owe me an apology,” Madison sassily tossed to her husband.

“I love you.”

“That’s better. Now, please continue,” Madison said, gesturing towards Michael and Andi.

Andi looked at the occupants in the room like they all had grown horns. She shook her head and turned back to face her husband. “I do love you.”

Michael smiled and wrapped his arms around his wife. He kissed her heatedly in front of his entire family. “I love you, too, Pixie.”

“Well, damn. She didn’t shoot anyone,” Max complained with disappointment.

Robert turned his gaze to Max and then noticed Kris holding a tiny baby. “You allowed your wife to travel with my new grandchild?”

“Got a problem with that?” Max asked.

As Robert and Max heatedly discussed the dangers of traveling with a newborn, Michael pulled Andi over to the corner of the room.

“Your family’s worse than mine,” Andi said as she eyed them all with fearful curiosity.

“I know. How do you think I handled your family so well, when my family is like this constantly?”

She looked back to her husband. “Do you really want to be married to me?”

“If I didn’t, your father never would have gotten me into his study that morning. I love you, Andi. I always have.”

“I love you, too.”

Michael smiled as he leaned over and kissed his wife. The woman who he found irresistible . . . his lover . . . his pixie . . . the wild belle.

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About The Author

Lora Thomas
is a longtime reader of romance novels. By accepting a challenge from her husband, she wrote her first book
Love’s Abyss
. Born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, she grew up in Owingsville, a small town in Eastern Kentucky. She graduated from Morehead State University with degrees in Business, Health Promotion and Nursing. Today, Lora resides in Kentucky on her family’s farm with her husband, son and several family pets . . . including her Russian blue cat named Pepper.

If you enjoyed this book, please read one of my others from the St. John Series
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  Love’s Abyss
  
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  A Pirate’s Heart
  

Coming Soon:

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  Keeper of My Dreams