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Aribel
I would have laughed when I got the message from my father to meet him at Orchids in the city only two weeks after Grant and I had dine and ditched at the same restaurant, but I was too nervous.
My father loved me fiercely. He’d always had high expectations for Aaron and I, but since I was three years younger I felt the weight of his disapproval so much stronger. The thought of disappointing my father was debilitating. He never explicitly came out and said he wanted me to graduate with a practical degree and marry someone successful…like him. But he didn’t have to.
And it wasn’t as if I hadn’t tried.
I’d dated loser after loser trying to force the feelings for the ‘right guy.’ I hadn’t even known how sad that was until Grant.
A smile touched my lips. I was going to tell my
