For the first time in my life, Zahir interrupts me. “Prin, I fell in love with you, too. I loved you then and love you now where were are. Will you marry me?” he asks, cutting off any further protest.
I stare back at him. The woman too broken, too cynical to love and be loved back in return. The girl who was never meant to get a fairytale ending.
I asked for a prince and received…a prince, actually…now that Zahir’s abdicated his throne.
And you know, I’m trying to be cynical here. I’m trying to think of reasons that this will all turn to shit. But as he looks at me and I look at him, I can’t help but think this isn’t a happy ending. It’s the happiest beginning a girl could ever get.
Chapter Thirty-Three
AMBER
“Prin, will you marry me?” Zahir, one of Luca’s best men at our wedding, asks my former legal secretary after a lengthy speech.
Lengthy but enthralling. One moment, I’d fully turned around and was counting the steps to the ballroom entrance so as to avoid another run-in with my ex-husband. And the next, I’m standing there with tears in my eyes, enraptured by his speech.
Damn hormones…
I don’t even realize I am still in the same place until Prin says, “Well, ya know, now is where we are…” and the audience bursts into the kind of ecstatic applause people only get when they’re kissing.
But uncharacteristic romantic spell over. I’ll send Prin flowers with a, “Call me when you need a divorce lawyer” note tomorrow morning. Right now, I’ve got to get out of here.
Just as I’m close to reaching the ballroom door’s entrance, a voice behind me says, “What’s what, Mrs. Ferraro?”
Mrs. Ferraro…even though I never took his name. Ugh!
But I won’t take the bait. I can’t take the bait like I did at Holt and Sylvie’s baby shower.
I speed up my step and walk even faster toward the door, hoping he won’t follow me—
But there’s a sudden quickening of feet, and the next thing I know, his voice is in front of me. “Hold up, where are you going so fast? I need to talk to—” he starts to say, only to stop.
And I still can’t see him. Nothing’s changed about that.
But I know why he’s stopped. Know he’s gaping in shock.
Not at my face, which he used to always tell me was so fucking gorgeous. But much lower down…namely my large baby bump.
Dearest You,
Oh, my gosh. Zahir and Prin, man…what a couple! What a story. My very best friend in the whole wide world is from Jersey, and I’ve always wanted to set a book in her state.
Prin has been kicking around in my head for years now. I even outlined a whole novel with her, but it just didn’t work. Then Zahir showed up and shocked the s-word out of me, by saying, her… yes, her.
I’m so glad he did. It was such a kick to find out why these two had to be together no matter the cultural differences and the external and internal obstacles keeping them apart. In real life, I love couples that make real weird sense, and these two have become a new fave.
Also, how nice was it to visit Holt and Luca?
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So much love,
Theodora Taylor
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