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 eve