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“No exit door past this point, cara mia”

“Obviously,” she said “Which is why I a until I had no other option”

“I see And when is this wedding?”

“Next weekend”

“Saturday or Sunday?”

She flinched again “It’s kind of an extended thing”

“Why is that?”

“Because it’s a destination wedding Very trendy Especially for a highly paid junior executive at a very successful tech company”

“And where is the destination?”

“It’s sort of in Alaska”

“Who gets married in Alaska?” That’s what she’d asked

“It’s a very beautiful resort And the bride’s fa” That had been the bride’s answer anyway

“And you expect us to go to Alaska for the weekend As a couple?”

“Well…yes Coo alone it will cause reat online buzz and by the tiets the proposal from us they won’t even be surprised They’ll be thrilled in fact since, as you limpse of the unholy spawn our unionwill produce”

“That’s true”

“Name your price,” she said “I could put so”

The words hung in the air, so aard and not what she’d intended It wasn’t supposed to be all sexual innuendo-y but it was She blamed those pictures Well, and the make-out session that had produced them