Free My Mail Order Wife (The Value of a Man Book 1) by Olivia Gaines

little tiny buttons on the back above the zipper.  I know Veronica helped you dress this morning.  I didn’t know if I needed to… Oh turn around.”  He carefully undid the buttons and the zipper.
    TaeTay’s hands were shaking. “If you give me a few minutes to freshen up, I will change and come to your room…” Her eyes were down when she said it. Everything has a cost, TaeTay; it is time to pay up .
    He pulled her into the hall and closed the door to Douglas’ room, “Is that what you want?  A wedding night with me?”
    “I know I have to do my duties as your wife…” she said, still looking at her toes.
    His hands were on her shoulders, “Yes, that is true, but I want you in my bed when you are ready to be with me as my woman, not just fulfilling the duties as my wife.”
    There he was again with those fancy words. Her eyes searched his, “So you are not expecting to be with me tonight?”
    Thurston was shaking his head. “I don’t even know if you feel that way about me yet, TaeTay.”  He was looking at her with a curious stare. “Are you even attracted to me?”
    She bit her bottom lip as she nodded her head yes.
    “Good, we have somewhere to start,” he told her after exhaling a sigh of relief.
    “Thurston, are you attracted to me?” She wanted to know.
    “Yes, very much so.” He told her with a wide smile. “We have time to get to know each other.  I will tell you that I am a generous and giving lover.”
    She was frowning with her nose scrunched up. “What does that mean?” she asked.  She stopped frowning and began squinting at him with an accusatory stare, “You have a chicken wing flap, don’t you?”
    He didn’t know what she meant as she shook the chicken bone that she had removed from Douglas’s hand at him. “A what?” he wanted to know.
    “You are one of those brothers who uses fancy words and pillow talk to cover up having a chicken wing flap!” She was still shaking the piece of chicken at him when it clicked.
    “TaeTay are you referring to the size of my…” he asked in shock.
    “Yes, I am!  It’s okay; I mean, it’s not the size of the boat but the motion of the ocean… stop, bad analogy.  I do not have an ocean.”
    “I think what needs to stop is this conversation.  Go to bed.  I will see you in the morning,” he leaned in and kissed her cheek before heading to his room and closing the door.
    Even once he settled his head into the pillow, he was tired.  It had been a full day from cleaning poop off a five-year-old to getting married to a woman that was going to either give him a heart attack or cause one in his parents.  She handled his father and the whole marriage thing well.  The woman even had his brother trying to trade some flowers with him so he could take her home.
    Yes, his hands were full. He loved it.

Chapter 15. Having her own …
     
    Monday morning brought a new set of challenges.  Getting her husband ready for work and out the door when Douglas was upset that Thurston was leaving was a trial that she was losing. It took Thurston three times to get Douglas to understand that he and TaeTay had to run some errands and that they would be back soon.  Douglas would not hear of it. He didn’t know the sitter.  He didn’t like the sitter. And he had no intention of staying with her, either. No one was going to depart that house without taking him.
    A simple trip to the bank was going to make Thurston extremely late to work that morning.  He phoned his office and had all of his meetings postponed by an hour.  TaeTay apologized profusely, but her husband’s mind was somewhere else as they made their way through traffic.  She wore black slacks and a smart red two- piece sweater set made out of some of the softest material she had ever felt. He didn’t comment. She donned the pearls again because they were pretty and made her look classy.
    In the bank office, TaeTay sat quietly as Douglas pelted them both with questions. Thurston