The arranged marriage.

by Flora Kidd

LEON WAS JUST A FAMILIAR STRANGER. Roselle's marriage to Leon five years earlier had had a bizarre beginning. Now, it seemed, it woould have an equally strange end. Her visit to Leon's vineyard in southern France was merely to ask him for a divorce. After all, they's never lived together as man and wife-except, of course, for those few wonderful months in London. But that was long ago, and Roselle knew Leon didn't really want a wife. Why, then, had this reunion-and her request-sparked such a violent and passionate reaction?

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