Marrying My Ex's Older Brother

essa today? Aren't you worried she

him. Even if she finds out you ditche

rtant as Nat. Adrian's looked a

, who had grown up in Adri

opped outside the

her. She stood listening, still dressed fo

ed the d

ersation

Someone set

anced down at her pink dress. She'd s

ut a bitt

couldn't make it to

up and came

t got back from abroad. As her brother, the le

anniversary," Vanessa said. "Did yo

rsaries on the same date. She'd been wa

ached for

again. I'll explai

ulled awa

is my fault. I didn't know you were

h tears. "Please forgive me. I really d

ld you stop acting? If you really wan

sion hardened.

leave me waiting while y

what yo

you chose this o

said, beginning to cry. "If I'd known coming ho

e began to sob, the ot

y're like siblings. How ca

ecause you couldn't stand her. She sacrificed so

drian might get sick

ian's sake. Even now, none of them se

ng, but I'm the one being unreasonable?

e ans

collapse. "It's fine if you don't like me, but my brother l

ears. She'd heard these excuses thr

atalie had called to say she'd been in a

alie had called in tears, supposedly thr

ther emergencies. Adrian alwa

years earlier, everyone had assum

with you. How am I supposed to take that? And wh

arted cryi

e of paper. We can do it on your birth

repeated. "Fine.

at her, then s

so we could stay together. I've agreed to marry you. What more

, but Vanessa caught the

had hear

get married. It's all of

ening. "If you walk out that door without

y were waiting fo

rned back

rrying Adrian. If I go back on that, may h

stunned faces,

's number and his accounts. Her phon

strangely famili

answ

t to get married,