"Long time no see." I grinned playfully. "What important business do you want to talk about?"
"It's about our engagement."
The words Eirwen had uttered were so punchy that I needed to check again if I had heard her right.
"Our… engagement?" I repeated, dazed by the suggestion.
Before he died, my father really did arrange a marriage for me. In reality, he had essentially paid for it with his life.
One day, on his way back from work, my dad had pushed an old man out of the way of a speeding car. His self-sacrifice had saved the old man's life at the cost of his own.
The grave injury he sustained from the ensuing accident proved ultimately fatal, with him passing away three days later in a hospital bed.
The old man was none other than Eirwen's grandfather. To repay my dad for saving hi
