My mother was a broad-minded and decisive person who took a direct approach to life.

Meanwhile, Duncan had been sitting at the other table and was clearly quite drunk. He laughed out loud before he said in his booming voice, “That’s right. Our kids have all grown up now. You are … Harper, right? When your daughter and Melinda’s son get married, don’t forget to invite us to the wedding as well!”

“Of course! You’re Felix’s uncle! You would certainly be invited!” Mom replied cheerfully.

Just like that, the conversation quickly switched from what college we were attending to the ways everyone would be chipping in for our wedding. If I didn’t know better, I’d have assumed I was getting married tomorrow!

Everyone was now engaged in an enthusiastic discussion about the wedding. Even one of Felix’s young relatives, a mere child, was excitedly declaring that he wanted to be the flower boy.

I lost interest in this conversation quite quickly.

heard it countless times before, so there was no use wasting my breath trying to

far in the future for me to consider. It was much too early to even discuss it. Besides, shouldn’t we be the ones in charge of our wedding plans? I couldn’t possibly let them do whatever they wanted for my big event. The final say belonged

to marry Felix. Our wedding had to be something that the both of us planned

that was just my own opinion, and Felix

a relationship involved two people. By the time I understood that,

never expected him to

must’ve been very worked up since he stood up so aggressively that his chair skidded noisily behind him before

eating my food. The commotion practically made me jump out of my seat. I stared at

seen

was written all over his face, and his lanky figure was trembling slightly. However, what scared me the most was the anger in his eyes and the frustration on

is all your fault. You’re constantly following me around, but I can’t say or do anything about

say something like that. I stared at him dumbfounded. My jaw

could feel the blood rush to my head,

no different from accusing me of being a shameless simp, and

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