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Chapter – 25 |Proposal
Hector started sweating profusely and I was sure my question had taken him off guard. "Oh, no dear, you're probably mistaken. Martina and I have… only one son.”
If his sudden nervousness wasn’t enough, his stutter was a dead giveaway. On my peripheral vision, I noticed Martina and the others arriving at the hall. “Intruder alert!” I whispered and pulled his hand, so we started dancing again.
“Look, Mr. Hector, you may be aware that I am being coerced into this marriage,” I began to speak with a smile on my face so it would appear that we were casually conversing. “I don’t love your son and will never marry him.”
“Do tell me the name of that fortunate boy.” Hector’s experienced eyes crinkled with laughter and a real smile crept across my lips at the thought of Noah.
“Noah Parker.”
Hector nodded. “I am not sure, how any of this conversation is going to he
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