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‘So we are in agreereement I will marry you’

It was Christian’s turn to exhale Who would have thought he would feel relief to hear a woe?

‘It would be best to ’

‘I don’t want to arrange anything until I’ve spoken to Rocco’

The mention of her brother’s name hit him like a blow: the metaphorical elephant in the rooether’

‘It will be best if I speak to him alone He’s my brother’

‘And he’s one ofto be happy about this’

‘I would prefer it if he gave us his blessing but if he refuses’ She sighed, a troubled expression crossing her features

‘We ait until he returns frouts ht of what his friend’s reaction would be

Rocco would never forgive him

He didn’t blame him

Whatever was thrown his way, he would take It would be no less than he deserved