The Unwanted Bride Of Atticus Fawn

The Unwanted Bride Of Atticus Fawn Chapter 9

~ATTICUS~

“You need to get Autumn a ring.” My father tells me. “It has to be appealing to the eyes. Remember, everyone would be looking at her hand. Make them stop and stare. They must know that the Fawns do not play when it comes to things like that.”

I should have expected this is what he wanted to discuss when he called me into his office earlier. Choosing a ring felt like something I should be doing with someone I was in love with; not a woman my family was forcing me to marry. Okay

“She can choose it for herself,” I tell him. “I’ll give her my card.”

The thought of choosing a ring for a woman I didn’t love made me angry.

My father narrows his eyes and twitches his mouth in disapproval. “That will not do. You must choose it together and don’t return home unless it’s one of the most expensive rings in the store.”

I sigh; of course, that’s all he’s concerned about—everyone’s opinion on the ring. The only person’s opinion he should be worried about is Autumn. She’s the one that would be wearing it.

I look at my phone when I receive a notification. It’s from Anya. My heart races at finally getting a reply from her.

I’m not happy with what she’s said, however.

thought you loved me. I was wrong about

to me. “You’re about

life and are forcing me to marry someone that I do not love for the sake of making more money and connections. How can you ask me also to stop

nothing. I needed time to come to terms with everything . I needed time to get her out of my life slowly. I couldn’t just close my

My father says as

out of our lives. Whether you

I just pointed out the obvious to him. He may have succeeded in getting me to marry Autumn, but my brothers were much more stubborn than I was. They would not have

her up at her home

him but do not say anything else. Speaking to my father about this entire thing would make me

from the desk and storm out

says when I bounce into him. “You’re not in a

I ask. “What gave it

his chin as he pretends to

here and try to figure out an answer,” I tell him. “I have somewhere I

to meet

to hide his dislike for Anya.

will come, and you’ll marry someone

solution for that.” He responds. “Never to fall

on you, and when it happens, it’s something that you can’t simply

dropped Anya there a few times before. It doesn’t