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Wedding Chocolate: Two Grooms and a Wedding
Adrianne Byrd
Two classic Kappa Psi Kappa novels from Essence bestselling authorADRIANNE BYRDTWO GROOMS AND A WEDDINGAmbitious 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 CHOCOLATECharlie 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?
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
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Table of Contents
Cover (#u7c0fe910-22af-5986-a44d-4fd85b70c592)
Back Cover Text (#udf7486a4-8adf-5505-911b-6bdf312bbd8a)
Title Page (#uc9d9acfc-c096-5010-a430-30b609332220)
Two Grooms and a Wedding (#u2f7c872e-cfcc-5d86-ae37-a20873264018)
Prologue (#ulink_d1d52aaf-d225-5611-a18f-9668e53d99a8)
Chapter One (#ulink_484518d8-8d7e-5db5-80d0-d62fc013406e)
Chapter Two (#ulink_9914804b-f59b-5213-86ea-0ff84c273d9c)
Chapter Three (#ulink_c003b9e5-04e6-5e84-80aa-3ed312a562fd)
Chapter Four (#ulink_bfb8a725-c5ca-58ee-aae8-b07da654bc00)
Chapter Five (#ulink_424755ad-c7e0-52e3-bc92-4a784c0bfa01)
Chapter Six (#ulink_1d2a8946-e7fe-5c83-97d8-e134b9e2e7d3)
Chapter Seven (#ulink_aa798408-c3c0-5ada-955d-0ff94fde4225)
Chapter Eight (#ulink_a8c5f304-59ec-56e7-8721-3cca3f3603c7)
Chapter Nine (#ulink_19b32e4b-73a3-5555-9206-0c641b4e571e)
Chapter Ten (#ulink_6013b0fc-8932-5c37-ab34-fc0175ecbb2e)
Chapter Eleven (#ulink_ece062a8-74cc-588f-965c-c84c77733eaf)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Sinful Chocolate (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
Two Grooms and a Wedding
Adrianne Byrd
Prologue (#ulink_9f96269a-506e-5da5-949f-e29ed9e97740)
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.
