Page 49 of Love in Fine Print

“Yes. Absolutely,” she replied with no hesitation.

“Okay, well, I had a few questions.”

She nodded. “Of course.”

“First, I’m assuming we’re going to elope?—”

“No,” she cut me off.

“We’re not?”

“I need to have the partners and other associates attend a wedding.”

“Right. Of course.” If she was doing this to make partner, then it only made sense that she had the people who would be making that decision witness the wedding.

“But don’t worry. I can take care of everything. My best friend, Bailey, is a wedding planner who owns a bridal shop, so all you have to do is show up.”

“Right. Okay. And when would this be happening?”

She turned her attention to her computer, moved the mouse and clicked. “Are you available on the twenty-first?’

“The twenty-first of this month?”

“Yes.”

“That’s two weeks from today.”

“Yes.”

“Um, yeah, sure.”

“Great.” She began typing.

I had never pictured what my wedding planning would be like, mainly because I’d never thought I would get married, but my bride-to-be penciling it in would not have been in my top hundred, or even thousand guesses of what I would have expected to happen.

Once she was finished, she turned her attention back to me. “What other concerns do you have?”

“Everything seems fairly straightforward, but there were two points that caught my attention.” I looked down at the document in my hand. “It says here that neither party will form any emotional attachments to the other,” I finished reading before looking back up at her.

She stared at me as if she was waiting for the question.

“Do you really think you can dictate that by including it in a contract?”

“Absolutely.”

“How can you be sure?”

“If we are both clear on what the parameters and expectations of the arrangement are, then I don’t foresee a problem.”

“Right.” I could see that she believed what she was saying, but it didn’t seem so black and white to me. But what did I know, I clearly was not a relationship expert. “Okay, and the only other thing I wanted to discuss was other romantic partners.”

She waited.

“It says here to use discretion.”

She remained quiet.

“What does that mean exactly?” I asked.

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