Meet his family.
His family.
The family of Adrian Vale, the most sought-after bachelor in the city, the CEO of Vale Investments, the man who had somehow become my husband in less than forty-eight hours.
The words echoed in my head like a gong, loud and impossible to ignore.
"No," I said, the word tumbling out before I could stop it. "Absolutely not."
Adrian's expression didn't change, but I saw something flicker in his eyes—a shadow of disappointment, maybe, or challenge. I didn't care which. I couldn't meet his family. I couldn't sit across from his parents and pretend to be the doting daughter-in-law when I didn't even know his middle name. When I still wasn't entirely sure what color his eyes were in direct sunlight. When the most intimate thing I knew about him was how he sounded
