“So, do you want to marry my brother?” Harvey asked as he leaned forward towards me across the coffee table.
The saddest part perhaps was the fact that the only person who I could enlist to help me on the matter was someone who was supposed to be dead. After forcing myself to get out of bed, I dragged myself through the shower and threw on some clothes before heading straight for Harvey’s wing of the mansion. Since Harvey had nowhere else to go, he was there reading a book when I waltz into his sitting room. To my surprise, Little Hayden was there as well, curled up at Harvey’s feet while looking more like a cat than a dog.
If the boss was right, which he most probably was, Hayden was out right now which meant that I needed to get my act together before he comes back. Today was already the first day out of the measly 7 days that I had left.
“I don’t know…I’m confused…” I admitted honestly.
Harvey looked at me like I was the most pathetic human being that he had ever seen before he sighed loudly and shook his head in disappointment. I could tell why he would feel that way but why did he have to show it so painfully clearly.
“How is it possible for you not to know?” Harvey asked exasperatedly.
“What about you? How did you know that you wanted to marry Amelia?” I asked enthusiastically.
It must have been complicated for him back then too because he was the heir of Torex. He was born to be the next leader of the Torex gang and yet he decided that he wanted to marry Amelia, a woman who was engaged to be married to the heir of a rival gang. It must have been hard for him to decide.
“It was the simplest thing ever. I woke up one day after having sex with her and she was laying there next to me. Then, I suddenly realized that I wanted to spend my life with her and no one else,” Harvey replied without pause.
Well, that was easy. Way easier than what I had imagined. I mean, what about all the potential conflict and all of that?
“Did you…worry about anything?” I asked.
“Of course, I did, but once my mind was made up, I thought that we could figure everything else out later,” Harvey replied casually.
“I wonder what Hayden is thinking…” I murmured.
“Haha…I’m sure its much more complicated for Hayden and it doesn’t help him much that I’m still alive…” Harvey mumbled softly, and I wasn’t sure if I heard him correctly.
“What do you mean by that?” I asked.
“It doesn’t matter. Back to you. What do you want to do?” he asked, turning the tables on me.
I sighed after coming to the conclusion that now was probably the right time to let the cat out of the bag and tell Harvey everything that happened this morning.
“Actually, the boss came over to meet me this morning…” I confessed in a small voice.
Harvey’s eyes widened in complete surprise at my words and if I didn’t have his whole and undivided attention before, I definitely had it now.
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