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“No.” I run my hand down his suit-covered arm. “Good-bye, Foster.”
“Good-bye? Wait, what’s going on?”
“I can’t…” My lip quakes.
“You can’t what?” His mouth tightens. “Evelyn?”
“I thought you were smart.”
He’s taken aback. “Apparently, not smart enough. Maybe you need to educate me.”
“I’m not living like this anymore.”
“Like what? You’re confusing the hell out of me.”
“This.” I motion to my outfit, then to his, and then to the room from where we came. “That! All of the society bullshit.”
“I never asked you to be a part of that. Hell, I never even expected it.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Tell you what?” He runs his fingers through his hair. “About my family? The money? God, I don’t know. Maybe because it’s impolite to talk about? Because I don’t want people to know? Because when they do know, all they see is a future for themselves and a giant bank account? Or maybe it’s because I wanted to make sure you loved me for me, first and foremost? Take your pick. All of them are the truth.”
“Never mind.” I shake my head. “It doesn’t matter.”
“It doesn’t matter?” he echoes back, trying to follow.
“Don’t you get it? You’re exactly what they want for me. You fit the mold. My mother was practically marrying us off to each other while we were sitting at the table. I swear, from the way she looked at you, she could see diamond-studded babies being spawned between us.”
“Is that a bad thing?”
“Yes!”
“Why?”
“Because you’re their choice!”
“Their choice?” he groans. “Why in the hell should that matter? What’s your choice?”
My blood hammers heavily in my chest.
Tears threaten to expose my plight.
“I’ve never had one.”
