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Chapter Fifteen

"It's a shock. You go from one day everything being OK to your life being upside down." - Amber Margarejo.

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"Are you mentally sick?" Leo asked.

"Are you trying to purposely get yourself into trouble?" Grace questioned.

"What's the problem with me getting married?"

"A lot of problems, Ethen, a ton of them."

"Why?"

"You can't get in a relationship," Leo rested his back on the chair. "And definitely not in a serious one."

"You can't deal with women," Grace explained, very confident of her statement.

"I can, I am dealing with a lot of business women at the moment."

"Exactly," she nodded. "Business women, and not women that you're friends with."

"I don't see a difference."

"Then you're obviously blind," Leo muttered.

"Shut up," Grace glared at him. "We need to show him how stupid he is—"

"Excuse me—"

"You listen to me, young man," Grace cut me off. "What happened that you realized you need to get married, because if I remember, you suffered from miserable ways you used to grab the attention of girls."

Leo scoffed.

"I never did something miserable," I stated.

She cocked a brow, "Then let me remind you of that library girl you fell in love with."

Shit.

"Grace please—"

"And when you started reading books just to say hi in a magical way."

They both laughed.

"This is not the point," I started with a serious face. "I was forced to marry her."

"Wait, what?!"

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"I need to meet her first, you can't just not marry her all of a sudden."

"We were never even engaged."

"Did you talk to her after what happened?"

I shook my head.

"God," she mumbled. "Were you always this stupid?"

"Grace, listen to me," I looked into her eyes."She was with him, then she came to check on him...I didn't know how to act, I didn't want to hurt her, so I just left."

She shook her head in what seemed like disappointment.

"Why didn't you tell me about the debt, I would have helped you," Leo offered.

"The past in the past, there is nothing I can do now. Plus, I can afford the money now."

"If you chose not to marry her, will you still pay the debt?"

"Yes."

They sighed, drinking their coffee slowly and silently. I wish I could read into their minds. They both seemed like they had big ideas held there.

"I need to meet her first before you make your final decision," Grace said.

"It's over now, nothing will change."

"Ethen, you can't judge what you saw just because you saw it," she said. "She isn't a heartless being, she must feel really guilty by now."

"Let her be."