“That Ace won’t like it if he finds out about me being here, in the east wing.”

Rubbing his neck, he looked at me. “It’s not like that, Em. It’s just that a lot of his memories are connected to this place. Good and… bad. And he doesn’t want anyone to peek into them.”

He meant peek in this room?

“Anyway, the ceremony is about to begin. Let’s go.”

The sudden change of topic hinted he wasn’t comfortable talking about this subject. I let it go and accepted the arm he offered me.

Walking away, I glanced over my shoulder one last time at that room. What happened here?

After the engagement was done, the cake was cut and served. And the last dance of the night began.

I continued to look for him. He wasn’t there even during the engagement. Did he leave already? He did look extremely roused back in the east wing.

“This isn’t fair, Dad! You won’t dance with your daughter at her engagement party?” Tess complained. She has been pestering Dad to dance with her so she could take some pictures, but he kept denying due to his lack of experience.

“Sweetheart, you know I can’t dance. Why don’t you go dance with Caleb?”

“Right, we just got officially engaged, and she’s already bored of me,” Caleb commented, earning a scowl from Tess.

“I’ve already danced with him twice. Now I want my dad to dance with me. Come on, just one dance, Dad.” She fluttered her puppy eyes.

He let out a sigh. “All right, but for only five minutes. No more.”

“Done. Thank you so much!” Squealing, she signaled the photographers to get ready and dragged Dad along after her.

“Now that my fiancé left me alone here, can I ask my gorgeous sister-in-law for a dance?”

I laughed as Caleb bent a little and offered me his hand.

“Sure. Who can say no to my handsome brother-in-law?” Rolling my eyes, I took his hand.

“Oh, I’m flattered.” Grinning, he led me to the dance floor.

As the song continued, we started to move with the rhythm. A lot of other couples also joined at the last dance. Even Tobias and Mom went along with the beat.

While dancing, Caleb’s gaze went to Tess every few seconds, and the same went with her. In between talking to Dad, she threw adored glances at her fiancé. Felicity radiated off her face. I was happy for her.

At least someone got the love of their life.

“You know, months ago, I never imagined I’d be living my dream one day,” he said, gaze still on her.

“What do you mean?”