Chapter 97

Once they reached the tent, she could feel her heart in her throat, her whole body feeling a little breathless at what she was about to enter. The whole thing was starting to feel so real, as if this man next to her truly was the husband who was taking her out on their first date, or the second one if she was to think about all the time they had spent together in the past.

He held the flap open for her. “After you, my darling,” he said as his lips stretched wider.

Elena stared at him, almost too tempted to roll her eyes, but the warmth and the playfulness in his eyes did things to her insides that were far more…wrong.

She swallowed before she took a deep breath and walked in.

But then, she stopped again.

A million words tried to form in her head but somehow they all disappeared in a matter of seconds and her eyes stung with the most unfamiliar of feelings, her whole body frozen in place.

Inside the tent, the floor was covered by a thick mat of rose petals and there was a circular table