Before the wedding
The air in the dining room was thick with tension as I took a seat at the dining table, surrounded by Nicholas, Leonard, and Charity. To be honest, I expected this tension since I was the one that imposed a dinner on them.
We ate in silence, the only sound the clinking of utensils against plates and I could feel the weight of unspoken words hanging over us like a cloud.
As the awkward silence stretched, I couldn't help but feel like an outsider, an intruder invading Nicholas and his family's privacy. But I knew I had to be there. I have to meet the people who will be my family when I get married to Nicholas.
My marriage to Nicholas might be for a short period of time and my stay with his family might be similar, but getting to meet them before the marriage was the
