Married to my Fiancé Uncle
He was watching me, not my father, with an expression I still couldn't fully read, somewhere between assessment and something gentler that I didn't trust myself to name.
"And where does he fit into ours?" I asked.
My father hesitated, and that hesitation told me more than anything he'd said so far.
"Don Rossi has agreed to take you as his wife," he said finally. "Not Marcus. Him. The alliance stays intact, the debt is settled, and given the circumstances of last night, it solves more than one problem at once."
For a moment I couldn't make the words mean anything. I stood there turning them over, waiting for some part of them to reveal itself as a misunderstanding, a bad joke, anything other