Chapter 23 Picking a Fight on Purpose

"Understand what?" he asked, puzzled.

Harper pressed her lips and asked directly, "Where were you tonight? Didn't you say you would come home early? We were supposed to visit Grandpa."

"I had something come up last minute, and I already told Mom."

"Did you tell me?"

The man's brow furrowed tighter, sensing more and more that Harper had changed.

Her words were sharp and confrontational.

This wasn't the gentle woman he knew, and it jarred him.

"If you're upset because I didn't tell you, it was my fault. It won't happen again, okay?"

Harper fell silent.

voice, "If you have any other problems, just say

not that I have problems, but how long are you going to lie to

you mean lie

wondering why Benjamin wouldn't admit

to hide things from me. We are getting divorced anyway. I wish you could just be honest with me. Even if you were going to

wife, and yet they didn't even have a single photo

from a marriage certificate and the sex, she couldn't find any other signs of them being

as she thought about

been by his

didn't regret loving him, but loving him felt like a cruel

see the tears welling up in her eyes. She refused

widened, his gaze filled with shock as he said, "What wedding dress?

you just

I admit to something I didn't do? Harper, this isn't like you.

his hands on his hips, and his handsome face

exuded a sense of cold

emotions anymore. "Are you

you were picking out a wedding dress, Benjamin. If you're worried I'll expose you in front of Grandpa and your parents, you can rest easy. I'm not that despicable,

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