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54 | MILES

Author: Lydia Haven
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-21 02:00:14

“What honeymoon?” I turned to Emmanuel with a frown.

“You know, the one we’d go to after we get married,” he looks at me like I’ve grown a second head. “Don’t give me that look. You heard my mom,”

“I didn’t think she was serious,” I mumbled, looking away.

“Mom is never not serious, baby,” Emmanuel pointed out the obvious. “You know that by now,” my heart hammered against my chest erratically. It’s been doing that since Mrs Stark left, after dropping the bomb on us.

She basically gave me an ultimatum. Either I get married to his son or I won’t be part of Emmanuel’s life as well as the company. How she came up with the idea, is beyond me. Well, I mean it’s not. That’s what people with money do. I’ve seen it happen, right before my eyes.

Fucking hell, I almost lost my boyfriend to this.

It just never occurred to me that it’d be shoved down my throat someday.

I feel like a gold digger. She must think I am. Either
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