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That can’t happen. No matter how great Dri seems, loving him is out of the question, and I don’t think love will ever be enough to make me stay. Not that love is an option here, but it wouldn’t be enough if it were.
His lips form to mine, and every caution gets thrown to the wind, and I forget everything I’ve been thinking about as he takes over me.
“Well, well, well,” a sweet voice purrs from the left of us. “Here, I thought we were getting married, Adrian. How are you going to go and kiss another woman in front of me and not even introduce me, baby?”
I shove Dri away and wipe his kiss off my mouth. “You’re engaged!” I raise my hand to slap him again, but he catches my wrist in midair.
“No. Yes, but not in the way that you think, Sweetness.”
“Sweetness? More like a tigress. No?” The woman laughs at her joke, gracefully coming down the steps in a satin nightgown and a robe with a long train with a fluffy hem. She looks regal, elegant, and powerful.
“And why do you care?” he lifts a brow at me. “I didn’t think you wanted anything to do with me?”
“I don’t want anything to do with you. I’m only here because I’m forced to be here, and your brother kidnapped me.”
“Oh?” The woman asks, her red lip gloss shining in the morning sun. “Is that where Otello was? Fetching the object of your desires?”
“Yes,” he answers, tugging me against his chest.
I struggle against him. “Let me go. Let me go! I want nothing to do with you. You’re disgusting. I want to go home.”
“You are home!” he yells, silencing me, but the mad, desperate look in his eyes, the one that screams fear, has me breaking.
My eyes water, and I shake my head, letting the tears fall. “Why am I here when you have her?”
“I’m here to break off the engagement made the day before you arrived, Mable. If I had known you were literally falling into my lap, I wouldn’t have asked Daphne.”
“Which was more like a business transaction,” she explains.
I don’t know why, but that makes me feel better. Not that I care, because I don’t.
I’ll never admit out loud that I’m jealous.
“I have to marry someone since I’m the head of the family business now,” he explains.
I think about when Otello carried me through the house and explained that his brother was having a party.
“It’s part of the rules. I didn’t want to marry anyone because I only wanted one, and I couldn’t have you, Mable. You were on the other side of the world and—”
He stops speaking, but he looks like he wants to say more, but he doesn’t.
“Daphne is my friend. She doesn’t want to marry me either, but we agreed it would only be on paper. We would both still do what we wanted with no physical connection, sharing bedrooms, or anything like that.”
“Business,” I repeat as things start clicking into place.
“Yes, sugar, business,” Daphne purrs as she comes down one more step. “Dri isn’t my type. Not in the slightest. I like to be in control. I’m glad you’re here. It means I don’t have to go through with it. Is that why you’re here? Or are you wanting a room?” She bites her lip as she stares at me.
“A room?” I blink at Dri, confused.
“She runs a BDSM club. No, we won’t be needing a room.” He opens the car door for me, and I hurry inside, wanting to get away from the situation.
A laugh bubbles up my throat, and I can’t help but let it free. I had so many goals when I went to Greece. I wanted to get out of my comfort zone, but the universe had a way of throwing me out of it.
I wanted to meet new people.
Check.
I wanted to see new sights.
