Tempted Trapped and Too Late to Run novel Chapter 540

Jackson was the first one to react. He shot up from his seat and practically yelled, “No way!” His voice cracked from the shock.

“What the hell is this? Am I seeing things? Dylan, pinch me or something—am I dreaming?!”

But while Jackson was freaking out, Richard’s face just went dark. He could tell right away—this was bad. Really bad.

Jackson grabbed the marriage certificate and flipped it open. The moment he saw the name, he cursed again, even louder.

“Clara?! Clara?!! You married Clara?! When did that happen?! No freaking way! I must be seeing things. Hang on, you’ve always liked her, right? So if you were going to marry anyone, of course it’d be Clara. So you went behind everyone’s back, kept it from the whole Ferguson family, and just went and got married to Clara without telling a soul?!”

He’d barely finished when Nicholas, who’d just taken a sip of his drink, totally lost it and spat whiskey all over the table.

“What did you just say?”

The look in his eyes was pure disbelief, like he literally couldn’t process what he’d just heard.

Wait, who likes Clara?

Dylan likes Clara?

Was he hearing things? There was no way this could be real.

Nicholas grabbed a napkin and wiped his mouth, still staring. “Jackson, say that again?”

Jackson was just as rattled. He stared at the marriage certificate for a full minute, making absolutely sure he wasn’t hallucinating. When he finally accepted it was real, he put it down with hands that were still shaking, reached for a cigarette, but then thought better of it.

“Dylan, if Walter finds out about this, you know you’re dead, right?”

Dead was putting it lightly. The whole Ferguson family would probably explode.

Translation: here’s your wedding gift.

Jackson stared at him like he’d grown a second head. “Wait, that’s it? You’re just... cool with this? Richard, aren’t you even a little worried?”

Walter was still out there throwing parties to pick out a daughter-in-law, and Dylan had already gone and gotten married behind everyone’s backs. Had he even considered the fallout?

Jackson narrowed his eyes, then asked, “By the way, did Clara even say yes?”

Wasn’t there a rumor just a few days ago that Clara was seeing some male model? She’d even seemed pretty crazy about the guy. And now she was suddenly married to Dylan? Did she actually agree to this?

It wasn’t that Jackson doubted Dylan’s appeal. It was just that Clara was different from other women.

He couldn’t really say why, but if there was anyone out there who could actually turn Dylan down, it’d be her. At least, every time he’d seen them together, there was never that look in her eyes. She never seemed the least bit smitten with Dylan.