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No, they weren’t.
“Regardless. It doesn’t mean that you have to spend the rest of your life trying to prove that you’re worthy of his love, Jona and I know that’s why you agreed. Why you wanted this.”
She looked away and I exhaled a sigh. “Do you really want to be someone’s wife right now? You have your entire life ahead of you.”
She shrugged. “I don’t know what I want.”
“Which is fine too. You have time to figure it out though. Is that such a terrible thing?”
She huffed and sat up, raking her fingers through her hair which she mindlessly tucked behind her ear.
“No, it’s not.” Her expression leveled. “But what about you? Do you want to be someone’s wife?”
No.
Maybe.
Hell, I don’t know.
“What I want doesn’t matter. This is happening and I’ll do what I have to do.”
She grinned and moved to the side of my bed, struggling to stand. “You sound a lot like me when you called trying to talk me out of doing the exact thing you’re about to do.”
I did. Point made.
“I’m a Devereaux. We do what we must for family.”
“Yep. And I think what I’m about to do is spend a few months traveling abroad.”
My mouth fell open. “You’re leaving.”
“Didn’t you just tell me to live my life?”
Well shit.
“Yes, I did but I figured you’d live your life here with me. Who’s going to help me plan this wedding?”
“We do have a mother, Cress…”
I issued a pointed look that she shrugged off.
Our mother was…
Our mother.
Pretentious, overbearing, kind when it benefited her needs and very much a woman with a selfish agenda.
“Okay fine, maybe not her but you can hire someone. Your fiancé is loaded. And you’ll have Trini. She loves shit like this. If you drop this in her lap you will have the social event of the year.” I hated the snarky smile that crossed her face. “And you can send me details.”
“Do you plan on at least showing up for the wedding?”
“Do you want me to?”
“Yes.”
“Fine, I’ll make sure I’m here. I’m about to head out. I’ve got some travel plans to make. Maybe Thailand first. Oh wait, no, I think I want to go to Dubai. There’s a really nice hotel and spa Chloe was telling me about.”
Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea.
