"You... with Chris?" Ariana instantly furrowed her brows. Adel nodded weakly. Ariana herself felt weak just hearing it. "But why? Who arranged this for you?" Ariana asked again.

"Papa. He and Uncle Jason planned it all," the girl replied. Jason was Chris's father, a cousin of Ariana's stepmother.

"But what about Daffin?" Ariana asked. Daffin was Chris's younger brother, born from a different mother. He was the one Adel had liked all these years, her first love since she was fifteen. Everyone ...