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

he saw me on Daniel’s arm, in this dress,

on my thigh. Then, I take it off

bed, the question decided.

to my vanity but stop dead in my tracks at

Chapter 127

next question.

want to marry Daniel?”

at him, totally confused. “What?”

pushing the issue. “Do you want to

him?”

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of this coming

words. “I didn’t realize that I had a

keeping my

force you to say yes at the altar,”

and husky.

very suddenly that this

what I want. That this is a negotiation. I

my arms

want to go to my father’s house,” I say, evading

“I want to stay

really about. Kent, I know, could care less

not I actually marry Daniel – our wedded

it’s

are other ways,” Kent says, his eyes drifting down

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