Chapter 110

Maxwell

The drive to the family house was spent calming Raya down as she continued to panic and overthink the whole thing.

It had been unexpected for me too—the text message from my dad asking to meet Raya—but I guess he had finally accepted the fact that I wasn't going to marry Tyla.

So you can imagine my surprise when the door opened about an hour later to reveal that same person, but not just her; I found out that my brother and his wife were present too.

Wasn't this just lovely?

I felt the panic in Raya go from one hundred to a thousand, and I squeezed her hand.

"Mom, really?" I said to her with gritted teeth when I finally got her alone before we all sat down.

"We just thought she might be nervous if it's just the four of us."

"And you think it's better now?"

She raised her eyebrows before realizing what I was talking about: "I thought you were over her."

"No, not her."

"Tyla?"

I nodded,

"She said she was okay with it."

"And you really think she was sincere. She's obsessed with