Da Silva's Bride

Chapter 1 Xavier Da Silva looked at the girl standing across the room trying on her wedding dress.He knew she would be no different from her social peers in their privileged circles in Italy..rich and spoilt.She was paler than her contemporaries, but he guessed that came from her English father.Her mother,Isobel Christofedes Miller was Italian through and through.His brain felt slightly fuzzy around the edges and he cursed himself mentally,many a shot of whiskey wasn't going to help him out of this predicament or the feeling of entrapment he'd live with for years.Alisha Miller spun around to see her soon to be husband."I like this dress, Xavier.Does it look good on me?"He nodded nonchalantly."Can't you for once say I look beautiful or I'm pretty?""You're beautiful"He said, sarcastically."Xavier....""Don't make a big deal out of this!You should be glad that I'm here with you,wrap the dress up and meet me outside"With that,h

Chapter 3"How can you two be so different and yet have the same face? Your boobs are smaller not to mention your butts"Isobel announced startling Amanda who just walked out from the bathroom in just her undies,she quickly reached out for her robe but unluckily for her, Isobel saw what she was trying to hide."God!How can you have a scar like this in your stomach? Which kind of woman harbours scars like this,you really can't be spotless like....""That's enough, already"Amanda snapped tying her robe."If you keep talking to me this way, I might just change my mind"She warned.Isobel swallowed."Anyway, your body doesn't matter since he won't be seeing it anyway.You have to make excuses upon excuses,no matter what,do not let him lay with you and don't ever forget that you ain't his bride""You have no need to worry, I won't have any cause to be his real wife"Isobel smirked and stood up,she walked over to the closet and opened it."These are her clo

Chapter 5Xavier's fingers halted on his buttons.Intense irritation spiked through the burn of desire rushing through his blood.All he could see was the woman standing before him, her pale shoulders bare, gleaming in the dim light.The delicate swells of her breasts were tantalizingly visible just above the bodice of her dress.Something caught his eyes and he looked down to see her twisting her hands.He breathed deep, sensing a delay in having his needs met.His suspicion that his wife was playing the game of a tease made him grind out."Alisha, what is it?"The confidence and fiery bravado that he had become used to was gone, and suddenly,she looked very beautiful.... very untainted.Something clenched in his gut but he quashed it.She was acting..... testing her control over him.That was all.He certainly wouldn't give her any reason to think that he desperately wanted her....because desperate was a strong word to him.Amanda bit her lip,her eyes darti

    CHAPTER 7When Amanda emerged from her room a little later,her belly was in knots.A woman was leading her out of her room,she said Xavier was waiting for her at the terraced area at the back of the resort.Why wouldn't he just allow her to stay in her room all through the honeymoon, she didn't want to be alone with him but she couldn't say no to that either,he was sticking to his words of giving her space for a week and avoiding him totally would only make he suspect something.And as hard as it was to admit,she really enjoyed his horse riding lessons, though it had ended in a confusing way.After warning her not to look at him in a way she really didn't understand,he helped her out of the horse,then walked hurriedly away leaving her with a disturbing question.'What way did she look at him?'Now,she had changed into a loose-fitting wide trousers and a similarly loose top.She felt covered up and safe, unaware of how the luxuriousness of

CHAPTER 9The following morning at breakfast, Amanda felt gritty-eyed after a restless night.Xavier, however looked as fresh as a daisy."I thought you might like to come around the estate with me today....get a proper feel for it,we can go on horseback"Amanda's tiredness subsided instantly, and her cowardly heart starting beating fast picturing them on the horse that day but today,she wanted to have a ride separately."Okay.That sounds nice"A couple of hours later,astride a huge horse, with a wide hat on her head, following Xavier,she knew nice didn't do it justice.Amanda couldn't help a burgeoning feeling of something scarily like joy from expanding her chest as she rode slowly on her horse.Just then, Xavier stopped his horse and looked back.He sat with easy grace in his saddle,lean and awe-inspiring.Black jeans moulded to hard thighs muscles.Amanda gripped her reins hard.She'd been avoiding looking at him ever since she'd watched him swi