“He has a point, Christian. You’re very wealthy, and I’m bringing nothing to our marriage but my student loans.”
Baby, I’ll have you any way I can get you. You know this!
“Anastasia, if you leave me, you might as well take everything. You left me once before. I know how that feels.”
“That was different,” she mumbles. And she frowns once more. “But, you might want to leave me.”
Now she’s being ridiculous.
“Christian, you know I might do something exceptionally stupid—and you…” She stops.
Ana, I think that’s highly unlikely. “Stop. Stop now. This subject is closed. We’re not discussing it anymore. No prenup. Not now—not ever.”
I scramble through my thoughts, trying to find safer ground, and inspiration hits me. Turning to Grace, who’s wringing her hands and looking anxiously at me, I ask, “Mom, can we have the wedding here?”
Her expression shifts from alarm to joy and gratitude. “Darling. That would be wonderful.” And she adds as an afterthought, “You don’t want a church wedding?”
I give her a sideways look and she capitulates immediately.
to host your wedding. Wouldn’t we,
of course.” My father smiles benignly at both Ana and me, but I can’t look at
you a date in
“Four weeks.”
That’s not
“It’s plenty of time.”
at least
“Mom. Please.”
“Six?” she pleads.
and shoots
is,” I state.
this morning. Our argument from last night still rankles—his disapproval a
I’m going to prove
adolescent
girl is beside me, we have a date for our wedding, and I should feel on top of the world, but I’m picking over the remains of my father’s angry tirade about Elena and the prenup. On the plus
to protect you. And I failed. I should
I didn’t want to hear him. He should have said this last night.
my head. I
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