Can't Force Him

“So, do you want to marry my brother?” Harvey asked as he leaned forward towards me across the coffee table.

The saddest part perhaps was the fact that the only person who I could enlist to help me on the matter was someone who was supposed to be dead. After forcing myself to get out of bed, I dragged myself through the shower and threw on some clothes before heading straight for Harvey’s wing of the mansion. Since Harvey had nowhere else to go, he was there reading a book when I waltz into his sitting room. To my surprise, Little Hayden was there as well, curled up at Harvey’s feet while looking more like a cat than a dog.

If the boss was right, which he most probably was, Hayden was out right now which meant that I needed to get my act together before he comes back. Today was already the first day out of the measly 7 days that I had left.

“I don’t know…I’m confused…” I admitted honestly.

Harvey looked at me like I was the most pathetic human being that he had ever seen before he