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He’s good-looking, sharply dressed, and I immediately don’t trust him.
“I don’t know, Rubes.”
“I’ll be fine. He wants to see me for a moment, and then it’s back to you and me, the dance floor, and shaking our asses.”
“Let me come with you. I want to meet him.” I reach for her hand as she turns in the direction of the blond guy.
“Next time, love,” she says over her shoulder, blowing me a kiss and grinning. “I’ll be right back.”
She doesn’t come back.
I wake with a start,tears streaming down my face.
“Since when did you become such an emotional bitch?” I ask myself, wiping the wet streaks with the back of my hand.
Connor is Ruby’s Aaron. He’s who she was meeting in secret for two months, and now, I’m supposed to marry him? I feel horrible, like a traitor, and every time I think about his finger trailing through my breasts, I hurt even worse because I liked it. I like him being close to me, breathing in his scent. I like the way he can invoke emotion in me without even trying. I like the way he looks at me sometimes, as if he’s fighting his own demons by talking to me.
“I’m sorry, Ruby,” I tell her in the empty room, another fresh wave of tears welling in my eyes.
I wish I could go back to the day she met him and stop it, change the course of her life. I hate him for pulling her in, making her want him, making her trust him.
It seems he’s doing the same to me.
But I’m going to help him because I have a much higher chance of getting answers and finding Ruby with him than I do on my own. We are going to use each other, and I hope that we don’t get burned in the process.
My door bursts open, and I jerk in surprise, watching Lilliana skip across the room and jump onto my bed, throwing a pile of material at the foot of my bed.
“We are going shopping today,” she says with a wide smile. “You can’t wear that same black dress to your review.”
“Is this common? Are all potential wives put through this process?” I ask her, trying to glean what I can about it.
She frowns, pursing her lips as she thinks.
“I don’t know. Connor is the first of us to get married.”
“Lucky me,” I drawl, and she shrugs one shoulder.
“It gives us an excuse to buy clothes. Connor gave me the card,” she says, holding up the rectangular piece of black plastic. I watch it catch the light and wonder how much of a bill I could rack up on it. “Geo is going to take us.”
“Ugh,” I say, rolling my eyes. Can’t wait for Grumpy to follow us around.
Lilliana giggles, and her cheeks turn pink. “Don’t you think he’s kind of cute?”
“What? No,” I tell her, shaking my head. Him slamming me against the hallway wall comes to the forefront of my mind.
“I do,” she says, leaning forward conspiratorially.
“Connor would lose his mind,” I tell her.
She sits back, an unimpressed look on her face. “You don’t know that,” she says, shaking her head.
“I know enough to know that brothers never want their friends with their sisters. Trust me on that. Plus, you are way too young for him.”
“You are no fun.”
She pouts, and I grin at her.
“I’m tons of fun.”
