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“Sawyer actually proposed?” Aubrey gawks at me and shakes her head.
“I knew he would!” Lauren giggles.
Aubrey and I both frown at her. “You knew?” I ask.
“No, I mean it like a figure of speech. I figured he would,” Lauren replies. “I’ve seen the way he looks at you.”
“As…?”
“The woman he loves!” She hugs me. “Oh, how exciting!”
“But they just met,” Aubrey argues.
“And he didn’t actually propose,” I add.
They deadpan at me. “I think we need more details,” Aubrey says.
I fill them in on what I came home to after they took me to the chalet in Vail. The sewing machine, which I point out, then the shelving and how he tidied up.
“Then he drove me downtown to this building he owns on the main street.”
“Oh, yeah.” Aubrey squints in concentration. “I think I remember Kevin mentioning that one building before. That their dad bought it a long time ago.”
“Kevin didn’t want it?” I’m suddenly curious. He doesn’t have that same interest in construction like Jason and Sawyer do, but that downtown building could serve many purposes.
“No. I think he didn’t want the hassle of being a landlord or anything.”
“Well, he gave me the storefront for a shop. If my mother balks at us being engaged and refuses to give me my funds, then I’ll at least have the shop. One day, I’ll save up enough to make it the place of my dreams.”
“And…” Aubrey furrows her brow at my ring. “And he’s willing to go so far with this fake thing just to help you?”
I nod, wishing I felt more confident about it.
“You’re not actually going to get married?” Lauren asks.
“If we need to, to get my mother off my back, then we will.”
Aubrey snorts. “If you need to? That’s no way to consider marriage!”
“She means with the money.” Lauren glances at me. “Unless you two really do want to marry?”
I rub my hands down my face. “I don’t know!”
We sit, and they both wait for me to figure out how to explain it.
“I’m falling in love with him. I think.”
Aubrey raises her brows. “You don’t know?”
“I haven’t experienced much love in my life to know. I think I am. I’m falling for him.” If I haven’t already. “But I don’t understand his behavior. He kisses me, then pulls away. He sleeps with me, then gets all distant.”
“Hot and cold, huh?” Aubrey rolls her eyes.
“Maybe,” Lauren says without Aubrey’s snark, “you should tell him how you really feel.”
I pick at the pins for her dress, unable to sit and be idle when I could work on the dress.
“But then she’s putting herself out in the open, being vulnerable,” Aubrey argues.
