Chapter 20

• “So I’ve heard.” Anna clasped her hands together to stop them from fidgeting. “Again, nothing that would make me afraid of you. I do wonder, though, why you haven’t answered my question. You’re marrying because of a will, so why do you need a wedding when a quick ceremony in a register office would do the trick?”
• “An interesting question.” Cedric was very still, his lean, powerful body perfectly at rest, which somehow relaxed her, easing her urge to fidget. “The fact is, I’m a very busy man. I work hard and then I play hard, and in the past that hasn’t left a lot of time for other things. I hadn’t thought a family would be important to me, but I admit that after my father died, that changed. I am the only Blackwood left, and so I want a son to carry on after me.” Something she didn’t understand shifted in his eyes. “Would you really blame me if I wanted wedding pictures of his parents to show him when he got older?”
• It certainly sounded good. Almost as if he believed every word he’d said. And yet she couldn’t quite shake the feeling that he was spinning her a story. Not lying, she didn’t think. More as if he wasn’t giving her the whole truth.