Chapter 127

“Oh!” I says, and then I give Kent a big smile. I’m excited, after all.

“Out, actually! Daniel just came by and asked me if I want to go to

dinner.”

Kent smiles at me then, just raising the little corner of his mouth. “The black, then,” he says, nodding towards a little minidress still hanging in my closet. “That’s better, for a city dinner.”

I considers the dress, which is really just a scrap of fabric. I pull it out and look it up and down. “You don’t think it’s too…” I say,

hesitating and looking up at him, a little embarrassed. “Well,

slutty?”

Kent laughs a little at this, leaning against my door frame. “The

whole point of going to a chic restaurant in the city is to wear a

dress like that and make your boyfriend jealous when all the other

men stare at you. That’s why a dress like that exists.”

I look back at the dress then, surprised and a little excited. I had

never thought about it that way. I sneak a little glance at Kent,

then, still leaning there in my doorway, wondering what he’d think

me on Daniel’s arm, in this dress, the

thigh. Then, I take it off the hanger and lay

bed, the

my vanity but stop dead in my tracks at his

Chapter 127

next question.

you want to marry

stand there, blinking at him,

says, pushing the issue. “Do

him?”

2/3

of this

my next words.

say, keeping my

force you to say yes at the altar,” Kent

and husky.

realizing very suddenly that this

That this is a negotiation.

folding my arms over her

to go to my father’s

marriage. “I want to stay here.” Because

this is really about. Kent, I know, could

actually marry Daniel – our

Instead, it’s my allegiance.

other ways,” Kent says, his

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