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I cuddle to Kieran’s side, our hands interlaced, and out of the corner of my eye, I catch how my brother studies us.
Cato gets in and plops down next to my brother, a nervous energy rippling through him.
“Ready?”
“I was born ready.”
I drag in a lungful of air and try to stay calm. But how can I when he’s treating this like it’s a joke? There is nothing funny about this.
“Feeling better?” His question takes me aback.
“Why do you care?”
“Lamb, my ass,” he mumbles, and Kieran muffles a smile.
“Can’t you just stop this marriage?” I ask Cato.
Kieran squeezes my hand, a sign not to go there, but I won’t stop trying.
“No.”
I was ready for a heated debate, even had some valid arguments at the tip of my tongue.
“No, just no?”
“Sweetheart.”
This time Kieran pins me with a look and I pull my hand out of his, crossing my arms over my chest.
“Chiara will never love you.”
“I don’t want love from her,” Cato says, tapping a finger on the door handle, looking out the window, seemingly unperturbed.
I said that to anger him, but the calm way he responds makes me wonder.
“So, why marry?”
“You should know people marry for various reasons.”
Kieran snaps his head at him, and Cato lifts his hands in the air.
“Don’t kill the fire in her.”
A look I can’t read passes through his eyes, but I blink and it’s gone.
When we reach Boston, I say to Kieran, “I’d like to stay with Chiara tonight.”
“Daniel will drive you there.” He sounds almost relieved. Did he hit his head or something? I didn’t even want to test him on my freedom, it was more I anticipated a bit of hassle before he let me sleep somewhere else. This man gives me whiplash.
He kisses me and has a talk with Daniel. I get in the black, bulky SUV, another security car trailing after us. This is my life now.
I am so wrapped up in my head, I don’t even notice Daniel parking the car in front of a white town house.
He opens the door for me. I climb out and rush straight into my best friend’s arms.
“I don’t think I could have done this without you,” she says.
I greet her parents and her sister before we fly up the stairs and it’s only then she rolls her eyes.
