THE ARRANGED BRIDE
"But Sharon was in my past chapter. You are here with me, and nothing feels the way it does with you.”
The tension in her face loosened, her eyes lighting up with the glimmer of hope. "You really mean that?"
I leaned down, my lips coining softly against her forehead. "I do. It's why I want you to know…you are not just an arrangement to me, Olivia, not anymore. You are my present and my future."
She had glanced away for a moment; now her eyes returned to his, marshaling her thoughts seemingly. "I kept thinking I would be only the chess piece for whatever deal our families got up with, that you wouldn't see me as more but just… a means to an end."
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