Hush: Family Secrets by Blue Saffire Page B

she had been really nice.
    I’d picked a simple silk cranberry colored sheath dress that I knew would look great on Shannon. She would be my only bridesmaid if I had any. Now here she stood in London, wearing the exact dress I picked.
    “Oh my God, what are you doing here?” I asked as Shannon runs to me squealing.
    “I should be asking you that,” she gushes as she pulls me into a tight hug. “I can’t believe you were going to do this without me.”
    “It is not like I have a choice,” I snort. “Wait, how did you find out and what are you doing here?”
    “You don’t want me here?” Shannon pouts.
    “Of course I do but how is my question?” I furrow my brows.
    “I guess Luca was the first person Uri called with the news. One minute we were out to dinner the next Luca was rushing me to the airport with him,” Shannon shrugs. “Papa is going to shit a cow you know.”
    I laugh at my sister. She has no idea the shit I am stepping in right now. When my father finds out he is going to hit the roof. I know this could cause tension between the families but I refuse to think of that now. There is no way I can live with my alternative options.
    “He will but then he will get over it. Uri had been his first choice before he took off,” I shrug.
    Shannon frowns, “Yeah, but why did he take off?”
    “I still haven’t gotten that answer,” I frown myself. Uri never did tell me why he left. He steamed over that bit of information once I told him that my father intended to announce my engagement.
    “He seems to be really into you. I mean to do this, to marry you without Papa’s permission. I told you he was into from the first time I saw you two together at the engagement party,” Shannon gushes with a goofy grin on her face.
    “Wanting to sleep with me and being into me the way you are implying are two different things,” I huff. I pull out of Shannon’s arms and move around her to hang my dress and head for a shower before the glam squad shows up to finish my look.
    Uri had not only sent me to find a dress but I also spent the day in the spa. Rebecca informed me that a separate team would show up at the house to get me ready for this evening. I don’t really wear a lot of makeup but tonight being what it is I figure it couldn’t hurt to be glammed out.
    “Why do you do that?” Shannon whines. “Uri has been nothing but sweet to you, but every chance you get you act like he has the plague or something. If he just wanted sex he could have accomplished that without pissing Papa off. It is so clear that he cares about you.”
    “Whatever,” I mutter more to myself.
    “Don’t whatever me. You like him. I can tell,” Shannon says as she follows me.
    “I’m doing this because I don’t want to marry that weasel Raphael. Uri is just the lesser of two evils. I have no clue why he is agreeing to this but it really doesn’t matter at this point,” I huff at my sister through the mirror.
    She gives my reflection a silly smile. “Whatever,” she repeats my words giving me a knowing grin.
    I roll my eyes at her. “I need to start getting ready,” I sigh.
    “Sure, but you should know one more thing before you do. Luca is not the reason I am here. Uri asked him to bring me,” Shannon says with a smug grin on her face as if she has just sealed some great deal or proved the ultimate point.
    Okay, she got me. I wasn’t expecting that. Really Uri, what are you up to?
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER Twelve
     
    What the fuck am I doing? I can’t believe I am about to get married. I never thought I would settle down. With the life I have led I never thought I had room for a wife. I can just see the smug smile on my uncle’s face now.
    Or at least he would have had a smug smile a few days ago. Right now I’m not sure how he is going to feel about what I am about to do and honestly I don’t care. I’m not nervous but I am happy that I called Luca’s ass and made him hop on the jet to be here