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"We carried on like this, stolen hours on the beach, etc At the beginning of freshman year, there were a lot of texts, and a lot of dirty Skype calls Then Christmas comes around, and we have a house full of people And I’ in But Fucker Tanning gets down on one knee in front of God and everybody and proposes to my sister"

Rafe’s eyebrows shot toward the sky "Say what?"

"That’s right He’d been seeing her the whole tih, and he said it was because he didn’t want people to gossip about hoas dating the boss’s daughter"

"Jesucristo What did you do?"

"I did what any self-respecting girl does I cried my eyes out in my bedrooe They set a wedding date for a year later"

"You didn’t tell her?" Rafe asked

I crossed nant "Of course I told her Eventually It took et over the shock I kept waiting for someone to call s he used to say to me So many promises, so many lies It took me a few months just to wrap my head around it But when suain And he was always around And I just couldn’t stand it anyht when my sister was over for dinner, and it was just the fabehind his chocolate eyes And when he figured out what had happened, he suddenly looked sad "They didn’t believe you"

Slowly, I shook ht you invented that?"

"Well" I had to clear my throat "At first, they listened My sister freaked out She confronted hiic would prevail But of course he lied through his teeth The guy is slick"

Rafe ry sound in his throat "That’s… incredible, Bella Your parents ought to believe family first"

Maybe But Rafe didn’t know ht offor attention’ I wasn’t an easy kid They set rules, and I broke the, and who I ith"