Karly, Luke, Hayley, and Eric stood there on the sidewalk.
"I don't live far from here so I walked here," Karly said.
"Me, too," Eric said.
"You guys can ride to the house with us," Luke said.
"Okay, fiance, let's get to it," Karly said. Luke smiled and held out his hand and she took it and they walked to the parking garage nearby with Eric and Hayley holding hands behind them. Luke unlocked his black SUV and he opened the door for Karly to get in and closed it after she was in. Eric and Hayley got into the back while Luke got into the driver's seat and he pulled out and headed to the house. They pulled up and saw the house.
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"Wow," Karly said.
"Nice huh, we love it," Hayley said.
"It's home, you both can move here when we get married," Luke said.
"Live with your parents?" Eric asked.
"Something wrong with that?" Hayley asked.
"No, it will take getting used to since Karly and I have been living by ourselves for awhile since we both have our own apartments," Eric said.
"When was the last time you two lived with your parents before they passed?" Luke asked.
"After I graduated high school and went to college and when I graduated college, I got my own apartment, I never went back living with them full time, I stayed for a little bit while my mom was fighting cancer," Karly said.
"The same for me," Eric said. They went into the house and Peter and Barbara came in from the living room.
"Mom, Dad, this is my boss, Karly, and her brother, Eric," Hayley said.
"Hello," Barbara said.
"Hi," Karly said.
"Hello," Eric said.
"Let's go into the living room and talk," Luke said. They went into the living room and sat down.
"So what's going on, son?" Peter asked.
"We have some news," Luke said.
"It might shock you a little," Hayley said.
"I can probably explain it, it has to do with our father," Eric said.
"What about your father?" Barbara asked.
"Our brother, Austin, found his will, he died before taking it to his lawyer so his old will got read instead of this one and Austin found it when he was packing up the house," Karly said.
"The will states that he left 300 billion dollars to the three of us but there was a catch, the three of us won't get one cent of the money unless we get married by the end of the month," Eric said.
"So you, your brother, and your sister have to get married or what," Peter said.
"The money disappears for good, that is a lot of money," Karly said.
"Yes it is," Barbara said.
"Austin found his fiancee so that left me and Karly looking," Eric said.
"I agreed to be Eric's wife," Hayley said.
"Hayley," Peter said.
"I offered, Dad, I can't let them lose that money that their father worked hard for," Hayley said.
"You have a good heart, honey," Barbara said.
"So I guess this means that Luke agreed to marry Karly," Peter said.
"Yes, I did," Luke said.
"Well, I have to say this was unexpected but I understand why you guys have to do it, 300 billion dollars is too much to let it disappear, okay, so what is the plan?" Peter said.
"Austin's fiancee suggested a triple wedding, we have 19 days to get married, I am giving one less day to get stuff done so we can get things done on time," Karly said.
"I will help out," Barbara said.
"We can have the wedding here, it is big enough and the weather is nice for outdoors," Peter said.
"We can meet here tomorrow with Austin and Abby to go over everything to be done," Eric said.
"There is something else to discuss," Luke said.
"Why not wait until tomorrow, son," Barbara said.
"All right, Eric, Karly, let's get you two home," Luke said.
"See you guys tomorrow," Hayley said. Luke took Eric home and pulled up in front of Karly's apartment building. Karly looked at him.
"Thank you for stepping up, I know you weren't expecting to be engaged so soon after meeting," Karly said.
"Do you believe in love at first sight?" Luke asked.
"Yes, wait, you mean it happened here?" Karly said.
"When I first met you at your office, I walked in and saw you and I just felt like this was it for me, I didn't want to even look at another girl, I didn't even know that waitress was staring at me until Eric said something," Luke said.
"Wow," Karly said.
"Hayley told me about your past relationship, she was warning me to not hurt you and I promise you that I will never hurt you," Luke said. She took her hand in his and he squeezed it smiling at her.
"I promise the same thing," Karly said.
"I'll be back to pick you up tomorrow and we will go ring shopping with Eric and Hayley and go to the house, have Austin and Abby meet us there to start planning the wedding," Luke said.
"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow then," Karly said. She squeezed his hand and got out and went inside her building and went to her apartment and went in and locked up and leaned against the door. She smiled and sighed and went and took a shower and went to bed dreaming of Luke.
