Katie's POV

Chapter 180

Katie's POV

Even when it gets worked out in the end, it sucks for long-term relationships.”

It had to be even harder to find someone you could enter into the sort of long-term relationship most people were especially keen on with.

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised Cephus had jumped at the chance to get me on board as a future wife.

And speaking of my future husband, I had half-expected he wouldn’t be there when I returned.

Then when I saw him sitting on the couch in front of the TV where he’d been when I ran out to get in Caroline’s car—where he’d probably slept for all I knew, he’d gone out the night before and hadn’t been back before I admitted defeat and crawled to bed—I half-expected to spot Angel somewhere in the room in the next moment.

She didn’t have anything further to add to her roster of manipulations for the moment: we were alone.

“What was your day like?” asked Cephus without looking at me. I let my bag slip by degrees from my fingers, frozen in place by the p