Chapter 279

“What’s this?” I ask, taking one off the tray and smiling at the

servant.

My father tsks as he takes his own drink, waving a hand for the servant to leave. “A sin,” he says, smiling and shaking his head at me. “For my daughter to not know Aperol when she sees it.”

Curious, I take a sip from the little straw poking out of the glass and my eyes go wide when I realize how good it is. “Oh my god,” I say, looking down at it. “Oh wow, it’s delicious.”

“Of course it is,” my father laughs, patting me on the knee. “Aperol, prosecco, and tonic. A shame your Daniel has not taught you this.”

smile at him. “Daniel and Kent drink more whiskey than anything else,”

drink,” my father says, wrinkling his nose in distaste. “A betrayal but…forgivable. At

grin, not really getting why that matters, but…whatever. I put the phrase in my back pocket to use on

daughter,” my father says,

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your brother, though I’d be

admitting or denying anything.

again, that your engagement to him is real? I am not fooled, Fay,” he continues, his voice taking on a bit of

embarrassed that it’s been that obvious.

bench before I look up into his

a better match than

of my father thinking of me and Ivan in

reasons for wishing you’d turn your head in a new direction. Not

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