Rhonda said, her eyes heavy with unshed tears. She lifted her finger and pointed to him, her venom stare slicing through him. “You take good care of my daughter or I'll shoot you.”* * *“Wow,” was all Maggie could think of saying as she stepped out of the cool limousine into the steam bath afternoon when they arrived at Jonah's house. His house. Yeah, right, it looked more like a hotel, for cripes sakes. The English Tudor style home was three stories high and ran the length of what looked the equivalent of city block. When they'd driven down the tree-lined driveway, she'd seen that there was a tiny courtyard in the back of the house leading into a garden filled with flowers in shades of rose, periwinkle, and bright yellow. “It'll be much cooler inside the house. The back verandah has a nice breeze, too.” She stared up at the mansion in front of her, then back at Jonah. He thought she was talking about the heat. Jonah hooked his arm through hers and led her down the brick path leading to the front entryway. She quickly glanced up at him, searching for...what? She'd just married the man and what did she really know about him? How could she expect him to reassure her that she hadn't just eaten some funky mushroom and was now plunging into Alice's Wonderland? As Jonah had promised, cool air hit her face immediately as she stepped through the foyer, which was like that of an atrium with a ceiling at least three stories high. The wide stairway wound itself up on the both sides of the foyer. Maggie marveled at the awesome dimension of the space. You could practically fit her whole tenement in the foyer alone.Panic froze her right to the marble floor. She didn't belong here. In a million years she'd never expected Jonah was this...rich. Yeah, she knew he had money. She knew he probably lived in a huge house and had his own driver to take him anywhere he wanted to go. But she never expected…this.Her attention was brought back to earth by introductions. “Mary runs the house. She's also makes the best chocolate chip cookies in the world,”
