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My mother scoffed “I think you can spare one afternoon I know ht off”

“Mother, it’s very kind of you, but I’ht now”

She looked at me with the sad-eyed expression that always uiltily

“What’s going to happen when you are ready to settle down but there isn’t anyone left? All the good girls are taken already Mary isn’t going to wait around forever, you know”

I tried to keep my expression smooth

“Mary should marry someone that she loves, and not settle for just anybody Maybe I’ht for her,” I said cryptically

“Nonsense,” my mother said, as ainto the background “I knohat’s best for you You’re my son”

“I knohat’s best for me But I’m not what’s best for Mary Trust me on that”

“You don’t know that,” le strawberry on her plate “We’re Maddoxes, Hunter We always marry the best”

Part of me wanted to mention how my sister was on her third husband, but an to drone on and on about wealth and respectability, I continued cutting an to wander to other territory

Would my family ever accept Dani if she didn’t come from money? Would they accept the curvy brunette based on merit, and not a family name or her social status?

I hoped so because I wanted the girl badly … and nothing was going to stop me

Chapter Nine