“What did you just say?” Leon asked with a calm but cold voice.
“You heard me,” I replied as I forced myself to meet his eyes.“Tonight made it very clear that your mother still hates me. She didn’t even try to hide it and you didn’t say anything to defend me.”
“I don’t want a marriage where I’m despised by your family,” I continued quietly. “Or where you don’t care enough to say anything when I’m disrespected right in front of you and you don't even love me.”
“You’re being dramatic,” he said with a steady voice.
“I’m not,I’m being honest.” I said as I swallowed hard.
“Honest or not,we can’t call anything off.”
“Why not?” I asked as my fingers tightened against my dress
He finally looked at me with a sharp gaze as if he was explaining something obvious to a stubborn child.
“Because
