Chapter 24

He did have her try on numerous wedding dresses before finally approving some white silk and tulle concoction, accented with gilt thread, that Anna told herself she didn’t care about. Yet at the same time, as she looked at herself in the mirror, she was conscious of a strange ache somewhere deep inside her.

She’d never thought a husband and children would be for her, and yet here she was, about to commit herself to both. That it wasn’t real, she knew. But that didn’t change the small ache inside her, the tug of longing for something…more.

But that was dangerous, so she ignored it.

In between wedding-dress fittings and investigating degree programmes at various universities, she found herself casually looking up Cedric on the internet, despite telling herself that she really didn’t need to know anything about him.

Apparently though, some part of her was desperate for information, hungrily combing through search results for anything interesting. There were lots