title: Unwilling Bride
author: Kay, Joannie
description: In the old west the slightest little impropriety was enough to warrant a shotgun wedding! Flynn O'Riley was determined his daughter was going to marry the Dude. It didn't matter that the darn fool man had wondered off and got himself lost, and she'd been the one to go looking for him and bring him home! Little Bridget was going to marry the man! Bridget protested, argued and finally ran out on her own wedding, hiding in the back of Will Bishop's wagon. Flynn was furious when he caught up with his headstrong daughter and gave her a choice: "You'll either marry this one or the dude, Bridget. Right here and right now, and no more arguing!" Bridget fumed silently, but she had no choice but to go through with the wedding. In less than ten minutes she'd promised to love, honor, and obey Will Bishop for the rest of her life. She had a ring on her finger that Will had removed from a chain around his neck, refusing the one her father had produced, saying his wife would wear his ring. Her father and brothers had kept their good-byes short and sweet, and she was all alone with a man who had given her the first spanking of her entire life!