60. Rushing

Abigail Hayes

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Since my mother was satisfied with the man I was getting married to, George and I had been able to set up a date for the family meeting.

Weddings were crazy and hard to plan, even the ones as small as the one wanted to hold. I was tempted to call it off and just go to court instead. We could just register our marriage and move on with our lives. We didn’t have to go through all these troubles.

The meeting between both families was happening tomorrow while I was going shopping with George the day after that. It was one of the rare days I had to myself and as usual, I planned to waste it inside my room, curled up in a blanket, and enjoying the remnants of my singlehood.

That was until I got a call from Patrick, asking to hang out.

I didn’t know what he was still doing in New York. Sure, his father lived here but he was mostly based in Miami. Was he finally going to take over his father’s business?

He asked me out to the arcade and when I met him there, the first ques