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“What pictures?”
“I was going to tell you when we got here. I didn’t want you even more nervous.”
“What’s going on?” she asked.
“West and Abby are having engagement pictures taken here in the backyard. A photographer will be here at one. That is why we had an early flight. Then there will be family photos. My mother wants you and Trevor in them.”
“I’m not prepared for pictures,” she said. “I just brought jeans with me. You said casual clothes.”
“We are casual people,” he argued. “You saw what I packed. We only have one suitcase. Did you think I kept a suit here or something?”
She was so panicked over this that she hadn’t realized. It did make more sense though that Braylon had asked her to bring a red shirt. He had one too. She wondered if everyone was going to be in red. She just thought it had to do with Christmas.
Guess she was going to find out.
She’d thrown him into her crazy family in Lake Placid, and now she’d get to see what it was like on his end.
26
NOT PART OF THIS WORLD
“Well, guess I can’t announce my engagement the way I wanted,” West said, walking into his mother’s living room the next day.
Braylon and Lily had arrived a few hours ago with the rest of the family. They had a big breakfast and opened gifts. He knew Lily would be pissed, but he didn’t care. They’d exchanged gifts at his place before they left town.
No way he wasn’t giving her something today. His mother would never let him hear the end of it.
His mother had given Lily a pretty silk top after he’d told her his girlfriend’s size and style. Talia had a love for jewelry making and gave a piece to Lily and Abby.
But he’d handed her a small box, announced to everyone they’d already exchanged gifts but he had one more thing.
She’d frowned and then caught herself.
He thought for sure she was going to cry when she opened the diamond earrings.
She wore gold hoops daily and had little silver studs in the second hole. He told her to put the diamonds there.
They were the same size as her silver studs. A carat apiece. He didn’t care about the cost and she knew that but gave him a hard time after for giving her more.
He didn’t want her to feel bad and told her that. But he loved her and there was no reason he couldn’t spoil her.
He knew Abby and Lily had talked some after too, but he stayed out of it.
“What happened?” Laken asked.
“Celia just texted me. You know she’d never bother me on a holiday so I knew there was a problem when her name came up.”
West moved over to Abby. “Oh man. That’s not even a good picture,” Abby said.
“What is it?” Braylon asked.
West tossed his phone and he caught it, then looked. “That’s a good picture,” he said.
It was Lily and Abby sitting next to each other at the game last week. Him on one side of Lily, West on the other side of Abby. Abby was brushing her hair from her face and there was a brief glimpse of a ring, but you couldn’t see anything else.
The headline said, “Did the Billionaire Get Engaged To His Cinderella?”
“It’s not really announcing it,” he said.
