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“You’re a bastard,” I whispered because he knew that I did.
Ross crawled off my body, then sat up and reached for his phone on the nightstand. I sat up and watched in horror as he dialed someone. We were in the middle of the most important argument of our lives, and he was phoning someone else.
“Hey,” he greeted to whoever was on the other line. “Think we can put together a quick wedding like yours and Rylee’s?”Oh, my God. He was talking to Stone Lexington.I wasn’t sure what Stone was saying, but soon Ross was replying, “I don’t give a fuck. She loves me, and I love her, and that’s the end of it.” Staring right into my green eyes, he said, “I don’t even give a fuck that she really doesn’t want to marry me right now. We’re getting married.” Another few seconds of silence, then Ross said, “Got it.”
As soon as he hung up the phone, I sat up on my knees. “Are you insane?”
Ross crawled back onto the bed, grabbed my chin with his fingers, and squeezed. “Do. You. Love. Me?”
I was barely able to spit the words out, but I wasn’t going to lie. “You know I do.”
“We will be married tomorrow night,” he said, so matter of fact that I felt kind of…stung. “If you want Delta there, I’m fine with that, but that’s all. No one else.”
He let go of my chin, so I could speak. “What about my grandparents-”
“Sutton-”
Then that got me to thinking. “Oh, my God. What aboutyourparents? What are they going to sa-”
“If you think I give a shit what my parents think, you’re wrong, baby.”
“Ross, think about-”
“Do you love me?” he asked again.
“I already answered that,” I bit out stubbornly.
Ross sat on his ass, then gathered me up in his lap. “You’re probably going to want to claw my eyes out, but…just trust me, Sutton.” My entire body tensed with that simple, yet difficult request. “Marry me, and I swear the rest will fall in line.”
I said the only thing I could at the moment. “My love for you feels an awful lot like hate, Ross.”
“I know it does, baby,” he replied easily. “I know it does.”
The next twenty-four hours that followed were horrible.
Epilogue
Ross~
It was our wedding night, and my bride was fire-spitting mad at me still. While she had lots of reasons to be angry with me, the invite list to our wedding was at the top of her very long list of grievances against me.
After my call to Stone yesterday, and not giving a shit that Alexander and my parents were going to be livid, I had spent the rest of the night keeping Sutton in bed with me. The following morning had been spent arguing about a prenup in between our morning classes. The afternoon had been spent working with Stone, Saxton, and Fox to pull off another midnight wedding, only this time, there was no Jennifer or Alexis in attendance. It had been me, Sutton, Stone, Saxton, Fox, Delta, Rylee, Kincaid, and the priest. The evening had been spent getting ready for the wedding that my fiancé had not been eager about, but her reluctance hadn’t deterred me a bit.
Sutton was in love with me.
The rest would work out.
So, while the woman had a lot of reasons to be mad at me, right now, she was sitting next to me on the couch at my place, just blinking at me.
Finally, she said, “Secret societies don’t exist.”
My lips twitched. “And that’s the very reason that they’ve lasted so long,” I told her. “Discretion is the key.”
Sutton’s eyes widened as her back collapsed against the back of the couch. “Your new tattoos,” she muttered.
I nodded. “Yep.”
While I was sure she had a million questions, the one she asked first was, “Why Cerberus?”
