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Spending time with Ryan was definitely messing with Bella’s head. She liked him, a lot, and when they were together, she started thinking about things she had no business thinking about. Like falling in love and bringing the two families together.
Definitely things she had no business thinking about.
But that was the reason she was standing in front of the small mirror in the tiny bedroom she was starting to think of as her own and wearing a black dress and boots.
“Are you almost ready?” Albert asked, pausing outside her door. His eyes scanned her, then returned to her face with a blank expression.
Bella learned that meant he didn’t really see her. There were times he looked at her and knew he was paying attention, but most of the time, he looked without seeing. For her, it was fin
