I sighed. Arden seems to be making sense. If I can't show my mate to my mother, I can as well please her by pretending to accept the wedding proposal with Kate.
But how can I pretend and for how long? I wondered.
"Do you have any suggestions?" I asked Arden who seemed focused on a magazine on the table. I waited for his reply which never came. After a few seconds, I tap him slightly.
"What?" he muttered.
"I can't believe you haven't been listening to me"
"I was listening"
"But you were staring at that magazine while I was talking to you?"
"I wasn't staring at the magazine. I was just quiet because you weren't saying anything"
"But I have been talking to you for a while now. Was I still not saying anything?"
"Fine. I was distracted a bit. I am sorry"
I sighed. "Do you have an ide
