I froze, almost certain I'd misheard him. "What did you say?"
Caleb reached over and ruffled my hair, with a helpless smile on his face. "Don't get too excited. Everything waits until after the SAT. You can rest easy. Caroline agreed to this, and the elders from all the families have given their approval too. There's just one condition I have to mention here, you can't hold a grudge against Caroline over this."
So this was their solution. Everyone believed that as long as Caleb stooped to date me for a few months, all the injustice, all the harm I'd suffered would all be wiped clean. Even now, not a single person had genuinely asked me what I wanted.
I sat there in silence, engulfed by a suffocating sense of powerlessness. Before I could even form a response, Caleb's phone rang. He answ
