They Gave The Good Match To Her And A Replacement To Me novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: The Morning After

I woke up with flour in my hair and a man's arm across my ribs.

The light through the window was grey and early.

Ethan was awake.

He lay on his back with his phone held over his face, reading it with one hand and keeping the other on me.

"Good morning," I said.

"It isn't."

He turned the screen toward me.

It was an email from his father, sent at one in the morning, with Gilbert copied on it.

It was five lines.

The wedding would be this Saturday, at the house, with the press invited.

The deed would be signed that afternoon.

Under it Gilbert had added one line: "Better move fast, before anyone starts asking who was really behind the wheel."

I sat up and pulled the sheet over my chest.

"That's a threat," I said.

"It's a Gilbert."

"This Saturday. That's five days."

"My father wants it done before the Ashcrofts change their minds."

"Why would the Ashcrofts change their minds? They picked you."

He did not answer.

He put the phone face down on the sheet and looked at the ceiling.

I said what had been sitting in my chest since the gala.

"You weren't there."

"Molly."

"You let your father announce me to three hundred people. You let me stand on that stage with a microphone. And you didn't even have the decency to be in the room."

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