Luci’s POV:

“Ready for tomorrow?” Carlos asked as I walked him to the door of my apartment.

His coming over and staying the night so we could talk everything out helped me get some things into perspective.

“Ready as I’ll ever be.”

We decided that I needed to go into the date and just be blunt about not being interested. Honesty was best at this point.

“You just got to be direct about not wanting this marriage ...