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“You’ve never wanted anything just because you knew it was forbidden?” My face turns blank in that moment. I know I’m supposed to say no, and I want to say no. But he looks at me like he can see right through me.
Lolita finds herself in a pressurized environment of getting to know the family of her groom-to-be, Aaron, after 3 months of dating. She hits it off with his parents, and even surprisingly gets along with his younger brother, Eric. Some might say, a little too well…
Written by Monica Austin
Published by AmorBooks
My friends said I was crazy. “Why, Lo?” they asked as they tried to shake my logic back in place. “Why would you agree to marry him when you’ve only been dating for three months?”
To be honest, I have never been the type to just dive into things. Aaron just did all the right things that night we rode the Ferris wheel. We were high up, untouchable, unseen. Aaron was in that deep blue sweater I liked, the one that brought out the blue in his eyes like a hue of sea and gold melting and dancing as they stared back into my dull hazel ones. I had not one suspicion in my mind that a proposal was dangling at the tail end of that calm look, where that moment would lead.
I especially had no idea that 2 weeks and 2 days later, I would find myself nearly ripping my nails off my…
