Chapter 2



Conrad looked up at the sound of my voice, his gaze landing on my face.

I didn't need a mirror to know I must have looked pale.

"Not feeling well?" His brows furrowed slightly.

Silently, I walked to his desk, swallowing the bitter taste in my throat. "If you don't want to marry me, I can tell Jacqueline."

The wrinkles between Conrad's brows deepened. He knew I had overheard his conversation with Jefferson.

My throat felt salty. "I didn't expect to become an unwanted dish, Conrad..."

"In everyone's eyes, we're already husband and wife," Conrad interrupted.

life with me. With a snap, Conrad closed his pen, his gaze falling on the ID in my hand. "We'll go get the marriage license

I wanted to hear. But at that moment, it made me

shaking it. "Conrad, you don't have to force yourself.

called my name with a

looking up to meet his impatient eyes as he reached

the ID. His

didn't move, the

tall figure looming over me, and he sighed lightly, a hint of resignation in his voice, "I was just joking

it all

grasped my arm, then slid down

in the future." Conrad turned, placed my ID in a drawer, and

going out and would be gone for hours each

called after him, "do

looking onto mine. After a moment, he smiled, his dimple flashing briefly on his left cheek. Conrad had a beautiful smile, warm and inviting. When I first joined the Wagner family, he approached me with that smile, calling me, "Tittle one." That smile warmed me and made me fall for

do. Why else would I drive across the city to get you desserts, send you roses every

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