Elena's POV
One thing about making a deal with my best friend and devil's advocate was that whatever was agreed upon had to be put into action immediately. No grace period. No room for second thoughts. Which was exactly how I found myself sitting at the family dinner table with Lily beside me, food I could barely taste in front of me, working up the nerve to say something I already knew was not going to land well.
It should not have been that hard. Technically.
All I had to do was tell my parents that the man who had dismantled my understanding of love and marriage in the span of a few years was about to become a business partner in one of their ventures. Ventures they treated with more seriousness than most people treated their own lives.
Simple. Straightforward. Completely fine.
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