Chapter 184

“Don’t take offence, but why did she talk to you?”

Dean sniggered. “No offence taken. You can’t be more surprised than I am. As she said, I’m impartial. Brian…He’d proposed. She wanted to say yes, didn’t know what to do. I’m unsure she intended to tell me everything. It came tumbling out. She didn’t think she and Brian had known each other long enough.”

“What did you say?”

“I told her getting engaged didn’t mean she had to get married right away.” Dean’s lips twitched to one side. “‘Course, the first thing on her mind was how your mother would react if she called off the wedding at some point. I told her that wasn’t her concern. It was your mother’s problem, not hers.”

“Can’t say I’d have told her anything different.”

“True, but I’m not sure she’d have taken it well coming from you. People don’t always want to listen to their family. Don’t want to listen to friends, sometimes.”

That brought Jay to the most important issue. “So…a counsellor?”