Adams, Eve - The Banished Bride [Brides of Bachelor Bay 5] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Eve Adams

choose?”
    “Only for the public to know you are a Gallagher. To us, you will be our wife.”
    “ Our wife?”
    Logan spoke up. “Amelia, in the privacy of your own home you will be a wife to both Noah and Andrew. In the eyes of this town, you will be a wife to one or the other. I don’t believe this town would accept our way of life.”
    “How do you know that?” Amelia and Noah asked in unison.
    Gage walked around and stood next to Logan, his blue eyes blazing as he glared at Noah and then Amelia. “You’re young and carefree. You don’t see the same things we see.”
    “I’m not blind,” Noah argued and squeezed Amelia’s hand. “You’ve never openly announced your arrangement so how do you know? Our very own mayor shares the same relationship with his wife and brother as you and Logan do with Lizzie. Surely if the town founder has no problem with it, the rest of the town won’t.”
    She stole a glance at Andrew. He held her in his gaze as he shook his head and stood, still holding her hand firmly in his. “If the Pettys caught wind of it they’d use it against us. Miles is absolutely miserable being married to Constance and will do anything to have others join in his misery.”
    “He’s right,” Logan stated, pulling her attention back to him. “Amelia, you must make a choice.”
    “And if I don’t?”
    “Tonight will be your last night in this house as a Prescott. You will not be allowed to return until you marry a Gallagher.”
    Too stunned to speak, she simply stared up at Logan. When he didn’t falter, her astonishment grew into a staggering fright. She jumped to her feet and cried, “You’re throwing me out?”
    Gage spoke up. “Amelia, please understand—”
    “But where will I go?” Her voice shook as her fear fueled the panic racing through her system.
    “Aunt Mildred’s,” Logan answered.
    No. No. No. No . How could he be so cruel? That horrendous woman hated Amelia. She hated everyone. It wouldn’t surprise Amelia if she hated life itself. She certainly acted like it.
    “You can’t,” Amelia pleaded, not bothering to mask the terror in her voice. “Mildred doesn’t approve of me.”
    “At the moment, she isn’t the only one.” Andrew seethed and dropped her hand to crisply fold his arms in front of him.
    The poisoned daggers he shot at her from those icy blue eyes stabbed into her heart. How could he look at her like that, like she was nothing short of pure evil?
    “Andrew, surely you don’t mean that. A moment ago you wanted me to make a choice between you and Noah. How can I possibly choose you if you don’t approve of me?”
    “So choose me.” Noah grinned, and she wanted to return his smile, but having Andrew think so little of her hurt too much.
    She dropped Noah’s hand and took a step toward Logan. “Please, Logan. Don’t send me away. I promise I’ll make this right. Just tell me what to do.”
    He held his hand up to stop her. “You’ve already been given your choices. I will tell you this, Amelia Prescott. If you refuse to marry either brother, nothing you do will ever make any of this right. My brothers will never be what they were together. You’ve driven them apart, Amelia, so far apart that they may never be back to where they were without you. Aunt Mildred will welcome the company, and it will do you well to spend some time with someone who isn’t fawning all over you.”
    “Please, Logan.” She sobbed out his name and didn’t try to hold back the panic-stricken tears as they began to fall. She didn’t want to have to make a choice. She didn’t want to live with Mildred. She didn’t want any of this. “Please don’t do this. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
    “Amelia,” Lizzie sounded from behind her.
    Amelia whipped around and wanted to fall to her knees, to plead with her sister to allow her to stay. She couldn’t live with Mildred. Lizzie understood that above all else.
    She ran into her sister’s arms and sobbed. “Oh,