Page 57 of The Proposal Pact
“Yes!” Anne grins. “All done!”
“Great.” I snatch Sophie’s hand and drag her out of this place, not wanting to spend any more time in here because clearly the local hippies did something to make normal people go a little crazy in there.
I may not practice all their voodoo crap, but I was born and raised here, I know it works.
Sophie bids goodbye to the receptionist as I pull her away, those old Converse of hers making those squeaky noises again, but I need to be out of here before I do anything else stupid.
Getting married and kissing my fake wife senseless is enough for one day.
“Do you feel that?” Sophie asks in a hushed whisper as soon as we come out of there.
“Feel what?”
“The air has shifted around us. I smell married now.” She wiggles her eyebrows while wearing that I’m-up-to-no-good grin of hers on her face.
I’d say how she smells to me, but I’ll keep it to myself. No need to freak her out when I’m already on the verge of losing it. Not five minutes into this marriage and I’m already realizing this might’ve been the biggest mistake of my life.
This was the only safe option, I repeat to myself. Or is it,remindmyself of the fact?
“Do we need to announce this somehow?” She points between us, and I shake my head.
“I’ll be very surprised if Love Hive doesn’t know about it already.”
“Okay, so what do we do now?”
“I’m going back to work. You can go do whatever it was you were planning to do today, and I’ll come later with my stuff.”
“Okay.” She shrugs, accepting my answer easily and almost immediately a burn settles in my chest.It’s a good thing she’s not reading more into it than it is, Callum.
“And if anyone has any questions?” Sophie asks, pulling me from my mental spiral once again.
“We’ll play it by ear, I guess. But let’s keep the line of ‘it was love at first sight’ and all that.”
“Okay then—” Whatever else Sophie was about to say gets cut off by a million dings and rings attacking both our phones simultaneously. The small devices nearly bursting from the onslaught.
“Oh my gosh,” Sophie whispers, her eyes growing wider and wider with each new ding. “How did she find out so fast?”
“Told you, news like that travel faster than wind around here.” I look down at my own phone and find a multitude of questions waiting for me as well. But I ignore them for now, and instead quickly log into my account on the Love Hive and curse.
Love Hive:
Idoforever: I guess congratulations are in order! Love Hive has done it again and it was my pleasure to add those two to the long list of happily married couples in my chapel.
Willoflove: What are you talking about my sweet Anne?
Idoforever: Callum and Sophie’s wedding, of course, what else?
Ninasunshine: Did she just say what I think she said?
CookieJ: Excuse me, what???
PheonixG: Did I read that right?
Burnyourheart: What did you do???
Ninasunshine: I know this is going to be very hard to believe, but we didn’t do anything. Not yet, at least.
Infullbloom: Callum…I didn’t know there were any other Callums in Loverly Cave besides my son.
