Adrianne Byrd - Wedding Chocolate - Two Grooms and a Wedding

Two classic Kappa Psi Kappa novels from Essence bestselling author ADRIANNE BYRD

TWO GROOMS AND A WEDDING

Ambitious Washington, D.C., attorney Isabella Kane has big dreams that include marriage to equally ambitious Randall Jarrett. But on the way to the altar, she meets a luscious hunk, and for just one forbidden night she chooses to indulge her deepest passions….

His mystery lady was gone by dawn, but political strategist Derrick Knight can’t stop thinking about her. So when she shows up as his fraternity brother’s fiancée, he’s stunned—but determined to stake his claim. He wants Bella for his own bride!

SINFUL CHOCOLATE

Charlie Masters has no plans to change his heartbreaker ways. Then some troubling news from his doctor gives him pause for regret…and six months to make things right with all the women he’s wronged. Most of the women don’t believe him, but one has a knockout sister offering him a taste of heaven.

Gisella Jacobs is busy launching her new chocolate shop when delectable Charlie comes knocking at her door. Her friends warn that he’s trouble, but his touch is as velvety-smooth as her lightest truffle. And when something so wrong feels this right…how can a woman resist?

Wedding Chocolate

Two Grooms and a Wedding

Sinful Chocolate

Essence Bestselling Author

Adrianne Byrd

www.millsandboon.co.uk

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Back Cover Text Two classic Kappa Psi Kappa novels from Essence bestselling author ADRIANNE BYRD TWO GROOMS AND A WEDDING Ambitious Washington, D.C., attorney Isabella Kane has big dreams that include marriage to equally ambitious Randall Jarrett. But on the way to the altar, she meets a luscious hunk, and for just one forbidden night she chooses to indulge her deepest passions…. His mystery lady was gone by dawn, but political strategist Derrick Knight can’t stop thinking about her. So when she shows up as his fraternity brother’s fiancée, he’s stunned—but determined to stake his claim. He wants Bella for his own bride! SINFUL CHOCOLATE Charlie Masters has no plans to change his heartbreaker ways. Then some troubling news from his doctor gives him pause for regret…and six months to make things right with all the women he’s wronged. Most of the women don’t believe him, but one has a knockout sister offering him a taste of heaven. Gisella Jacobs is busy launching her new chocolate shop when delectable Charlie comes knocking at her door. Her friends warn that he’s trouble, but his touch is as velvety-smooth as her lightest truffle. And when something so wrong feels this right…how can a woman resist?

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Two Grooms and a Wedding Two Grooms and a Wedding Adrianne Byrd

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

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Sinful Chocolate

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Epilogue

Copyright

Two Grooms and a Wedding

Adrianne Byrd

Prologue

Arlington, VA

“Isabella Elizabeth Kane, what do you mean you’re engaged to two men?”

With her head planted between her legs, Isabella waited for the nausea to pass. It wasn’t going to happen anytime soon—especially not while her mother, Katherine, screeched at her.

“Answer me, young lady!” Her mother stomped her foot. “Do you realize the mess you’ve made?”

In response, Isabella released a long winding groan. Under the circumstances, it was the best she could do. Heck, she didn’t understand how she’d gotten in this mess either. Well, she did, but it was all so unbelievable that she didn’t know where to start.

Crash!

Isabella jumped from the bed, hiked up the hem of her white beaded Badgley Mischka wedding dress and raced to the bedroom window of her parents’ two-story home. Her mother and Isabella’s team of bridesmaids/sorority sisters followed suit.

Outside, rolling around on the lush green lawn before hundreds of friends, family and Capitol Hill’s most powerful elite, Isabella’s two fiancés, Derrick Knight and Randall Jarrett, duked it out as if a world championship title was on the line.

Reverend Williams, bless his heart, jumped in to pull the men apart, but his efforts landed all three in the Lady Justice stone-garden water fountain.

Everyone gasped in horror.

“No. No. No. This can’t be happening,” Isabella fretted, turning away from the window to pace around the room like a mad woman. “Oh, God. What am I going to do?”

No one had an answer to that—especially since no one knew how she had managed to get herself engaged to two men at once.

“Izzy,” Keri Evans, Izzy’s best friend, spoke up. “You’re going to have to do something.”

Talk about an understatement.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

All the women jumped and gasped at the sudden hammering on the bedroom door.

“Isabella, open this door!” her father, Senator Tyler Kane, roared.

Shrinking from the rattling partition, Isabella returned to the bed and tucked her head between her knees again. Meanwhile, her mother rushed to the door.

“Everybody out!” her father barked.

The command was met with the loud rustle of silk as her bridesmaids bolted. Isabella wished she could join them, but she no longer trusted her legs’ stability to carry out an escape attempt.

The Senator, as he was affectionately called, slammed the door behind the women. Waves of heat pulsed from him and, if Isabella wasn’t mistaken, the floor trembled as he stalked toward the bed.

“Well, little lady?”

“I’m sorry, Daddy,” she croaked down at the pearl-colored carpet.

“Sorry? I have spent twenty years on Capitol Hill,” he began, his voice laded with anger. “And I’ve never once been embroiled in a single scandal. Now my own daughter has managed to destroy my record in one afternoon. This is an election year for God’s sake!”

“Tyler, calm down,” her mother instructed softly.

“How can I be calm? The media is here.”

Isabella’s head snapped up and for her trouble the room spun. “Oh, Daddy.”

“Don’t ‘oh, Daddy’ me. You need to get out there and fix this.”

Fix it? How on earth could she do that?

A quick knock and Keri rushed back into the room. “They’re on their way up.”

“Who?” her mother asked.

“The fiancés.”

Isabella sprang to her feet, thankful they still worked after all. “Stop them! Don’t let them come up here.”

“Stop them?” Katherine questioned. “Honey, you can’t stay up here and hide all day. You’re going to have to talk to them.”

“No. I—I can’t,” Isabella said, bordering on panic.

“By God! As much money as I have spent on this wedding, you’re getting married today.”