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“And she’s threatening to withhold my inheritance money,” he said. “What that means is, I’ll be broke and I’ll have nothing. But I convinced her to give me a little time. A month. She’ll let me keep my inheritance if I convince her I’ve found someone—a girl—that I intend on settling down with. That would be you. When you’re ready, I’ll arrange a meeting between the three of us. I’ll propose to you. You’ll say yes, and then we can plan for the wedding. Don’t worry—the wedding will never happen. It’s just a ploy to get my mom to believe I’ve changed.”
I stared at him.
I just stared.
Did he say what I thought he said?
He wanted me to be his… fake fiancée?
He leered as if he expected me to say something. His eyes dropped to the translator strip on my neck.
He thought there was something wrong with the tech preventing me from understanding what he was saying.
It’s not the tech, dude. It’s what you said that’s got me confused.
“Maybe I should get someone to help with the strip?” he said.
“It’s not the strip,” I said. “I understood what you said.”
“Oh. Okay. Good.”
He smiled and those dimples blossomed. I tried not to let them distract me.
“So, what do you think?” he said.
“I think… you’re nuts,” I said. “Crazy. Off-the-scale insane. Do you have any idea what you said to me? Because if those were the words you intended on saying, I think you ought to check into a mental hospital.”
His smile faltered but didn’t disappear.
“I see,” he said.
“Actually, no,” I said. “I don’t think you do see. I was abducted and sold at a market—for a cheap price, I might add. I refused to be one of these ‘exotic girls’ that you Titans are supposed to be attracted to, so the woman that owns this place—”
“Shrisa.”
“Yes, Shrisa, hired me as her maid. For some unknown reason, you chose me instead of all those gorgeous girls out there. You weren’t even supposed to see me. I was supposed to be invisible. Now you come in here with this crazy story like I’m supposed to leap for joy and be excited because I was the lucky one who was chosen for this shit.”
I panted, struggling for breath after my outburst.
“So, are you interested or not?” he said.
I blinked.
Seriously, what was wrong with this guy?
“Why don’t you ask for one of the other girls to do it?” I said. “I’m sure they’d be more than happy to.”
“Because they’re species my mom does business with. She can use her connections to learn about any one of them. She’ll know the truth. That this whole thing is a ploy.”
“Oh, so you decided to resort to the backwater trash a.k.a. me.”
“Right,” Dyrel said, grinning and leaning back in his chair. “That’s exactly it.”
He seemed to have no grasp of the insult he’d just slapped me with. Even worse, he seemed genuinely pleased with himself.
I gritted my teeth and bit down on my anger.
“So, your mom can’t run an investigation into me because she doesn’t know any humans,” I said.
