Chapter 17

Then, he sighed. “Okay, then. I’ll tell them to cancel the dinner.” With that, I immediately looked at him.

“What?”

“I’ll cancel the dinner, Katherine. We both know that it is not just a dinner. We- no, They are planning our wedding.” He smiled a little after he said those. Yeah, we are both aware that it is not just a regular dinner.

“Don’t do what you don’t want to do. Please do what you want to do without caring about what they will say about your decisions. That is your life, Katherine.” He stood up. I remained sitting as I looked at him. Then, he smiled at me, put his hand above my head, and caressed my hair gently.

“After all, we are all just people who want freedom, not a chain, right?”

I felt a hot liquid forming in the corner of my eyes. He kneeled in front of me as he continued caressing my hair. He is tall, so when he kneeled, our gazes were just equal.

“I know you went here to get your freedom. I don’t want to be the reason, and my family, why can’t you get that?