Damien shook his head. “You always have a choice, Princess. No one can force you to get married.”
“No one is forcing me to do anything! I said yes to Leo.”
“Because you wanted to or because you were scared of losing him again?”
Ouch.
“What do you want me to say?” Evelyn spat.
“That you’re happy!” Damien snapped. “That you’re excited about the wedding. That Leo is your soulmate and you don’t have any doubts even though you’ve only known him for two weeks and you were basically engaged to Ritter two days ago.”
“Stop it!” she hissed.
“Then answer my question. Do you want to get married tomorrow?”
“I want to be with Leo.”
“Why?”
“What do you meanwhy?” Evelyn scoffed. “He loves me!”
“Is that all it takes?Ilove you!”
“You aren’tin lovewith me.”
Damien started to say something but then bit his tongue to stop himself. He wiped a hand over his face to clear his expression. “Ididn’t lie to you or almost marry your sister.”
Evelyn’s nails dug into her palms. “Leo and I have been over all of that. He apologized.”
“So everything between you is fine?”
“Yes.”
“And you aren’t keeping secrets from him?”
Her jaw snapped shut.
Damien wasn’t done. “Does Leo know everything that happened with Ritter? Or what you were meeting with Moeller about? Or why you needed a Healer yesterday?”
“You don’t know all of those things, either.”
“No, but I’d like to think you would tell me if we were a day away from getting married!”
Evelyn fiddled with the ring on her finger. “I thought you were happy that Leo and I are engaged.”
“I thought you were happy about it, too.”
“I am!”
“Then say it. Say you want to get married tomorrow.”
“I… I want to marry Leo. I just…”
“Evelyn,” Damien groaned.
“It would be nice to have a little more time. But we don’t, so the wedding is tomorrow.”
“You don’t have to do this!”
