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“Jethro, will you marry me?”
Оглавление“What?”
For the first time since she’d met him, Celia saw she’d knocked Jethro off balance.
“Did you ask me to marry you?”
“Yes,” she gulped. “I—I should have said I’ve got a proposal for you. A business proposal. I need a husband for three months. A temporary marriage, that’s all, drawn up legally with a contract. I’d pay you, Jethro. Sixty thousand dollars.
“There are conditions to this marriage,” she continued. “One of them is a high degree of privacy.”
“Do tell me the others.”
“No sex. No contact after the time’s up—you’d sign a contract to that effect.”
“Charming,” Jethro said.
“It’s a business deal—not the romance of the century.”
“I get the message. No sex?” he repeated softly. “Are you sure about that?”