Gina
Everything has been so out of sorts. First, Chad Hensley’s death, and then the men, my potential suitors, started dropping out. Men who had written to me suddenly stopped writing back. I didn’t understand why. Maybe I’d chosen the wrong men. Maybe they were too scared to come and see me. Or maybe they didn"t like the idea of an arranged marriage, after all.
I couldn"t help but notice that my father had been reading through the letters, just as he had been with all the others. But then something happened that I wasn"t expecting: he started writing back to these men. I overheard him talking on the phone to one of the men, a man I"d written to. I didn"t understand what was going on. I only knew my father was being sneaky.
Maybe he liked Joel more than he let on. My father has a reputa
