THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY.

“Okay. I understand that you love passing your boundary, but… why must you bring me with you?”

Ryan grunted for the umpteenth time at Zeke who did not even spare him a glance and only looked through the window.

“Do you think I can enter now?”

“If you want to embarrass yourself, yes,” Ryan rolled his eyes.

“Can you be serious?”

“Of course, I am serious. An inauguration ceremony is going on and as if attending without being invited is not enough, you want to go in right now when people are still there. You think the Baskervilles would welcome you with an open arm?”

“Chloe was invited,” Zeke said.

“Are you Chloe?”

It was Ariana’s inauguration ceremony and literally all the influential businessmen were there, but he was not invited.

Not like an invite could stop him, but he knew that he would finally be meeting with Elena’s parents.

He does not know how that realization makes him feel but he knows damn well that they would never welcome him with an open arm.

If Ariana could give him such