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Chapter 127
Chapter 127
“Oh!” | says, and then | give Kent a big smile. I’m excited, after all.“Out, actually! Daniel just came by and asked me if | want to go todinner.”
Kent smiles at me then, just raising the little corner of his mouth. “The black, then,” he says, nodding towards a little minidressstill hanging in my closet. “That's better, for a city dinner.”
| considers the dress, which is really just a scrap of fabric. | pull it out and look it up and down. “You don’t think it’s too...” | say,hesitating and looking up at him, a little embarrassed. “Well,slutty?”novelbin
Kent laughs a little at this, leaning against my door frame. “Thewhole point of going to a chic restaurant in the city is to wear adress like that and make your boyfriend jealous when all the othermen stare at you. That’s why a dress like that exists.”
| look back at the dress then, surprised and a little excited. | hadnever thought about it that way. | sneak a little glance at Kent,then, still leaning there in my doorway, wondering what he’d thinkif he saw me on Daniel’s arm, in this dress, the hem riding a littletoo high on my thigh. Then, | take it off the hanger and lay it out onthe bed, the question decided.
I start to move over to my vanity but stop dead in my tracks at hisChapter 127
next question.
“Do you want to marry Daniel?” he asks, blunt.
| just stand there, blinking at him, totally confused. “What?”“Daniel,” Kent says, pushing the issue. “Do you want to marryhim?”
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Where was all of this coming from?
| take a moment to plan my next words. “I didn’t realize that | had achoice,” | say, keeping my voice quiet.
“No one will force you to say yes at the altar,” Kent replies, hisvoice low and husky.
Oh, | think, then, realizing very suddenly that this isn’t a realquestion about what | want. That this is a negotiation. | turn fullyto him then, folding my arms over her chest.
“| don’t want to go to my father’s house,” | say, evading thequestion of marriage. “I want to stay here.” Because that, | think,is what this is really about. Kent, | know, could care less aboutwhether or not | actually marry Daniel — our wedded life isn’t whatinterests him. Instead, it’s my allegiance.
“There are other ways,” Kent says, his eyes drifting down over
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My breath comes shallow, then, and | try to stand perfectly still ashe looks me over.
“What are they?” | ask, my voice atimid breath. We're getting omdanger sly clasdid-otne trickytderitbry with this question, with thatlook in his eye. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
“Use your imagination,” Kent says,dragging his eyes up to mine) hen,as if he.c pt-stand keArhoment later,hetliins away from me, heading backdown the stairs. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
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