CHAPTER 17

Tears kept rolling down Amanda's beautifully rounded cheeks.

She felt like her world had come to an end.

Her father's death was like a thorn, a deep thorn in her flesh. Deep deep.

She was still trying to cope with her mother's death.

What tormented her the most was that she was never close to her father. She never abode to her father's will for her. She was busy working and working, trying to escape the pain from her mother's death.

The only thing her father had ever asked for was for her to accept a marriage proposal from the Blake's family.

Amanda began to consider her father's wish. Getting married to Colton wasn't that bad anyway.

Yes, Colton did break her heart so bad, but there's always space for one more.

Amanda didn't want to think about Ethan one bit. What he did was extreme. She hated herself for being fooled. Even if she did marry Colton, she would not give him all her heart. Never again.

As all these thoughts ravaged her mind, she wished she