ZANE
Fuck!
Maybe I should have waited a day or two to ask her. Give her time to think about it. Allow her space to breathe. But I could not afford that. Time was running out, and I had to move quickly, or I'd lose everything I had been fighting my family for.
Five months. That was the duration I had before my birthday—before the cutoff date.
I had to make everyone believe that I was married, in love, and off the market. If I didn't succeed, everything my mother had ever worked for would be ruined.
Tessa gazed at me as if I had just grown an extra head or lost the one I was born with entirely. I could sense the doubt in her gaze, the shock, the utter and total confusion twisting her angelic face.
"You're not actually serious Zane. Are you?" she finally answered, her voice thick with s
