"Well, for starters, she isn’t my girlfriend I have told you that a million times by now and she’s definitely not my future wife, it was an arrangement made by my father when I was just 10, and now he’s twisting Annaida’s relentless fixation on being my girlfriend into a weapon, using her stubborn pursuit of the title 'Mrs. Knight' to corner me into submission. …. I hope you remember my family drama that I told you yesterday," he said, irked, clearing the air with a brusqueness that was almost endearing. "Anaida’s as headstrong as a royal who’s never heard the word ‘no’ whose every whim was treated like a royal decree. Given she’s my father’s best friend’s daughter, there are boundaries I can’t cross, even when she tests my patience. I can’t exactly deal with her the way I’d like to, and

