“My life was stolen.” I pointed accusingly at him, “Stolen and I am the f*****g dumb girl who just gave it to you. You took it but you’re pissed at the man who didn’t let me escape you to save himself? And now you just want me to agree to marry you. Like it’s the most normal thing in the world. All while following your rules, two rules that will keep me on your good side. I think. But I don’t even know because you’re so unpredictable. Now you tell me my father is going to be forbidden from attending our wedding, a wedding I have no choice but to be in, because he had the audacity to be afraid of your family and do what your uncle demanded? How are you better than him?” I stopped talking and dashed the tears off my cheeks with the backs of my hands.
He put his palms on my knees and leaned
