A Convenient Ring To Claim Her

Canadian DANI COLLINS knew in high school that she wanted to write romance for a living. Twenty-five years later, after marrying her high school sweetheart, having two kids with him, working at several generic office jobs and submitting countless manuscripts, she got The Call. Her first Harlequin novel won the Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best First in Series from RT Book Reviews. She now works in her own office, writing romance. Books by Dani Collins Her Impossible Baby Bombshell One Snowbound New Year’s Night Innocent in Her Enemy’s Bed Four Weddings and a Baby Cinderella’s Secret Baby Wedding Night with the Wrong Billionaire Jet-Set Billionaires Cinderella for the Miami Playboy Signed, Sealed...Seduced Ways to Ruin a Royal Reputation The Secret Sisters Married for One Reason Only Manhattan’s Most Scandalous Reunion Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk. A Convenient Ring to Claim Her Dani Collins www.millsandboon.co.uk ISBN: 978-0-008-92857-5 A CONVENIENT RING TO CLAIM HER © 2023 by Dani Collins Published in Great Britain 2023by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental. 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Trademarks marked with ® are registered with the United Kingdom Patent Office and/or the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market and in other countries. www.millsandboon.co.uk Note to Readers This ebook contains the following accessibility features which, if supported by your device, can be accessed via your ereader/accessibility settings: Change of font size and line height Change of background and font colours Change of font Change justification Text to speech “You should expect more from me. We should expect more from each other.” “Like what?” A panicked sensation fluttered into her chest. “I don’t know.” Only the tick in his cheek suggested this was a more uncomfortable conversation than he was letting on. “But I was serious when I left Toronto, that we need to make a decision.” “You did.” She was unable to keep the crack from her voice. “I revealed we were having an affair and you walked away cold turkey.” That still hurt. So much. Not a word. Over. He turned another inscrutable expression on her. “Yet here I am, not gone anymore. Am I?” “Don’t.” She scowled at her plate. “I don’t want to fall into a trap where we’re both feeling a sense of loss over Eden’s marriage to Remy so we glom on to each other, convincing ourselves there’s more between us than there is. I was never going to upend my life for you, Micah. I have plans. And what could you possibly want from me besides sex?” “I don’t know. You?” he suggested. Four Weddings and a Baby You are cordially invited to...the scandal of the wedding season! In a shocking turn of events, the marriage of billionaire Hunter Waverly, aka the groom, was halted today when it was revealed he has a secret baby with a local waitress! Their one night clearly wasn’t enough...but will this be a real-life Cinderella story? And the drama doesn’t stop there. Our sources say humiliated bride Eden decided to take matters—or should we say, the diamond ring—into her own hands and eloped with best man, Remy Sylvain! Well, those two have always had a special connection since that night in Paris... Meanwhile, maid of honor Quinn is rumored to have been whisked away by Eden’s brother, Micah. And the groom’s sister, Vienna? Let’s just say, she has the biggest secret of all... It’s never a dull moment at a billion-dollar society wedding! Don’t miss Hunter and Amelia’s story inCinderella’s Secret Baby To my husband, Doug, whose shoulder trouble inspired poor Quinn’s injury. Thanks for doing such dedicated research for me on this one, darling. I love you. Contents Cover About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Note to Readers Introduction Four Weddings and a Baby Dedication PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE EPILOGUE Extract About the Publisher PROLOGUE HE WOULD NEVER forgive her for this. That knowledge stabbed into Quinn Harper’s belly like a blade as she announced, “Micah and I have been having an affair. It’s been going on for years.” Birdsong ceased and the fragrance of the flowers that surrounded the gazebo turned sour. Quinn was aware of soft gasps of surprise next to her, but all she saw was Micah. Micah Gould, a man she loved to hate and hated to l—lust after. That’s