Pretend To Be Mine; Bound To My Brother's Bestfriend
Thinking only about protecting my own heart when so much more was at stake.
"Why do you hate me so much?"
Malachi's voice startled me. I'd almost forgotten he was still in the room.
I looked at him through my tears. "What?"
"Why do you hate me so much?" Malachi repeated, his voice hard with anger. "What did I do to make you despise the idea of marrying me this much? Is the thought of being my wife really that repulsive to you?"
"That's not—"
"Because from where I'm sitting," Malachi interrupted, standing up, "it looks like you'd rather lose everything than spend a year married to me. And I'm trying to figure out what I did to deserve that level of hatred."