The Unfeasibly Tall … (sigh)

I am on page 44 of THE GREEK TYCOON’S UNEXPECTED WIFE by Annie West. I picked it out of the others on the rack because I enjoyed Annie West’s HIS FOR THE TAKING, which had a male lead who wasn’t a complete jerk.

But in this one, he has just decided that the reason the chick is completely emaciated is that she has been starving herself in a ploy to raise his sympathy and have a larger divorce settlement. (You see, they were in a situation where — to help her escape from a prison during an uprising in South America — they had to have a hasty marriage, but within a day they were involved in an explosion that he believed had killed her.) Her claims that she also thought him dead? Seen as a play for his billions.

Anticipated solution to his assery: she tells him that she’s been lost in South American jungles the past four years. It will take one conversation on page 180.

Added bonus: a variation of the line “Oh why did she bother? Nico never believed her anyway” has already shown up.

Am I putting it down?

*sobs*

No.

ETA:

I just hit page 57, and she told him. Oops.

I have hope again.

ETA2:

Page 58, and he’s decided she’s lying. Sigh.

ETA3:

Page 59, and she reveals she’s been living with a nun the past four years. His response:

A nun? She was asking him to believe she’d been living a life of unblemished innocence with a nun all this time?

…

Next she’d claim to be a virgin.

New anticipated solution: Sister Mercedes shows up, wondering how her friend is doing, and he realizes how wrong he’s been.

Hopeful solution: Sister Mercedes shows up, he finds out they’ve been having wild nun sex the past four years, and the heroine and the nun run off to find their HEA.

ETA:

Done. Nothing unexpected, but the angst was all ratcheted up at the end and I COULDN’T STOP!

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