Читать книгу An Inconvenient Marriage - Christina Miller - Страница 8
Оглавление“What’s so funny?” Samuel couldn’t keep a smile from his face, enjoying the sound of her laughter.
“You are.” She smiled. “With your formality. Although Grandfather used to tell me stories of Grandmother calling him Reverend, even when they were alone.”
“And what did he call her?”
“Ducky dearest.”
He could just imagine the dowager’s response. He grinned at Clarissa. “Hmm...it has possibilities.”
The warmth in Samuel’s heart shot a grim warning, reminding him that romantic love was not for him. Sure, the dark-haired beauty before him was his wife, but only because she needed to hold on to this home, and he needed to keep his pastorate. He couldn’t treat her as if they had a real marriage, a real relationship.
She laughed again. “Let’s leave Grandfather’s terms of endearment in the past. At home, you may call me Clarissa.”
“And please call me Samuel.”
Clarissa smiled, settling this issue, if nothing else. Although the arrangement seemed too casual,
too intimate, for a wife who would never truly be
his wife.
