Mistaken Wedding

They needed more than love to make a marriage.

Wary of men since her tumultuous love affair with Luis, Carina did not relish the idea of returning to Portugal, in need of her estranged husband's help to find her younger sister.

They had parted in anger, and with no word from Luis in nearly five years, Carina no longer blamed their separation on parental disapproval and interference. What they had called love must surely have been youthful infatuation. Or, at most, a purely pleasurable sexual relationship.

So, cool and aloof was the way to approach Luis again, for heaven forbid that those longings return!