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Chapter twenty-two
(a/n: the last chapter was a bit too long so I divided it into two)
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"What?" I repeated
He had turned fully to me at this point and his head was slightly tilted to the right. "I believe I said that quite audibly enough for the human ear."
I blinked once, then twice, and again till I lost count. My mouth opened as if it had a mind of its own, not before my brain picked up and commanded it to slam shut again. "I- I don't know what to say."
"Great," he said. "Then, don't say anything at all. Are you done now?" He eyed my dumbfounded expression for a while before adding, "The plan was to have a quiet ceremony, but since you decided to experiment and called in the media, I decided that you'll bear any additional impromptu cost by having your
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