He sighed. “She overheard Wes ask me if you were going to be able to keep the house when it didn’t work out between us. From there, she kept badgering me about it, telling me that she was more than willing to play the part of my doting wife, and would have no problem with me sneaking off to meet up with other women, so long as I gave her a little attention in the bedroom too. We were headed back to the apartment to pick you up so that I could use you as a human shield and get you to sign the necessary papers to move forward with the house.”

“I don’t want that house anymore.”

“What? Why?”

“Seriously? Your realtor completely disrespected me, and you think I want her to get a commission on a house worth that much? Besides, Wes was probably onto something. There’s really no need in buying a house that we’ll just end up moving out of and having to sell later.”

“Why would we move out?”

I gave him a look, because there was no point in describing to him how ridiculous that question even was. Instead, I moved around him and started to make my way further down the driveway. “You should get that car parked somewhere out of the way,” I told him as I continued walking.

“Shouldn’t we make our entrance together?” He called out to me.

“I don’t see why we would,” I threw back as I continued to walk away. Maybe, it made me a poor sport, but I didn’t have it in me to fake things anymore today. Maybe, I never did.

I entered the house first and waited there for a few minutes in the entryway for Tucker to join me, but he was taking an exceptional amount of time to park the car. Part of me wondered if he had decided it wasn’t worth his time to show up. Lucky him, if he had decided to ditch. It didn’t take long for our respective family members to start grilling me, once I made my way to the dining room. My father, sensing my increasing discomfort, pulled me into his study. “Tell me you didn’t do this, not after we had our last talk.”

“I did, it’s done.” I pushed my hand forward and allowed him to see the ring that I still refused to look at.

“Oh, Mina, I wish you wouldn’t have.” While we were sitting there, I went ahead and explained the way the realtor had ambushed Tucker when he was trying to square things away with the house. “There was a man across the street with a camera, so I’m sure that it will come to light pretty quickly, considering the way people around here enjoy their billionaire gossip.”

While my father assured me that he would get his legal team on it as soon as our dinner was finished, I couldn’t bring myself to care. It was also the first time I had ever acknowledged the fact that my now husband would become a billionaire once he inherited his family’s conglomerate and fortunes. It was definitely enough to make me nervous about the whole situation I’d managed to get myself into. Once we sat down to eat dinner, after I finally made my father believe that what was done was done, and there would be no backing out on my part, everything seemed to finally calm down. At least they had until several phones at the table started pinging.