Page 73 of His Secret Virgin

Tension filled her mother’s voice. “What did you do, Emma Hancock?”

“It’s not Hancock anymore, Mom.” Emma looked at me as she placed her fingertips on my cheek and looked at me with loving eyes. “It’s Taylor now. Christopher and I got married yesterday in Concord. I’m his wife now.”

“You’re his what?” she shouted. “Wife?”

Celeste sounded shocked. As if it was beyond imagination that I would actually marry Emma. I could see now that neither she nor Sebastien had any clue as to how much I loved their daughter. The thought saddened me.

“Yes, he asked me to marry him yesterday, and I accepted.” Emma leaned against me as I wrapped my arm around her, holding her close. “And I’ve never been happier, Mom. Never in my entire life have I felt so loved and safe.”

As a parent, I knew that statement had to have hurt her mother. But Celeste didn’t let on that those words might have affected her. “Did he get you to sign anything before you two were married? You know, like a paper that said if you two divorce that you won’t get any of his money?”

It seemed to me that everyone who loved us thought I would leave Emma destitute if we ever separated.

I took the phone from Emma to let Celeste know what I thought about that. “Celeste, I saw no need to have a prenuptial agreement with Emma. She’s my wife. She’s having my child. In my opinion, neither of us will ever walk away from this marriage. And if that does happen for some reason, I wouldn’t send her out of my life and home with nothing. I love her. No matter what you believe, I do love her with everything I have, and that includes my money.”

The way Emma snuggled up to me made my heart nearly burst with love. I adored her. Why couldn’t everyone see that?