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" How about we help each other?" He says and I look up at him, eyes still wet from the tears streaming down my cheeks, heart freshly broken from the public humiliation and betrayal that was Lucas's breakup. I can faintly make out the first droppings of snow floating magically under the light of the street lamps. It's that time of the year, a time for wool coats, a time for relaxing, none of which I'll be doing. "I'm an orphan with a wicked aunt and a boyfriend who left her because she has nothing to her name, how could I possibly help you?" I say another sob escaping my lips. "Marry me" he replies and my eyes widen in anger. Is he mocking me?. I look into the eyes of this stranger and see he's dead serious. "I need a wife, you need a home, marry me and you'll have all you want". I nod.

A Snowy Marriage (A Christmas agreement)

I feel like a child, I feel like a child who has been taken out to go get some ice cream, literally.

I cannot tell you the sense of freedom that comes with leaving that huge place, I cannot tell you the sense of freedom that comes with it.

It is almost like the moment I left, my cage was simply opened and now I'm fluttering about freely.

"Stop moving so fast" Alice says hurrying to catch up to me.

For some reason she decides not to go with a skirt or a gown, or anything similar to what she wears normally, instead, she's wearing some jeans, some sneakers, and a top.

A very simple outfit but yet she looks decidedly alluring in it.

I'm guessing that all the stares she has been getting all this while isn't just because of the fact that she has a very good shape.

I mean for the most part of it, i feel totally embarrassed about what I am in right now.

Okay, the dress isn't that indecent. It isn't that indecent but yet the back is a little bit open, there's almost something of a V line at the back, but for the most part of it, the dress is okay.

It is okay, it is even in my favourite colour. It is a very pale purplish pink.

I don't know where Adrian manages to get this, I don't know how he managed to get this kind of dress because it fits me perfectly.

It was almost like it was made specifically for me and I do not want to flatter myself too much thinking that it was.

Seriously, it becomes weird at some point, it becomes weird at some point knowing that a guy practically knows everything about you.

He knows everything about your body, even down to the barest measurements.

Well he doesn't know everything about my body and I should stop thinking about things that will make me blush so furiously in public.

"Where is this ice cream place that we were going to?" I say looking at her and she smiles.

Arden is walking behind us. She's walking exquisitely, looking oddly girlish for today's outing.

Her hair is styled simple, the skirt she is wearing is simple, the turtleneck isn't too elaborate but yet it passes an message across. She isn't one you mess with.

She isn't one you mess with or simply go around grabbing her anywhere. I'm pretty sure that some guy had attempted to do that, a guy had been tempted to do that and he found his face in the dirt quite quickly.

Adrian for the most part of it, Adrian is attracting a lot of stares. He is attracting a lot of stares from every girl that we pass by, it is almost like they stop, and some even show up behind us, practically stalking him. I am shooting him a glare at this.

There's another one who has stopped now, another one who is wearing a very indecent and revealing dress.

She smiles as she walks over to him.

Chapter 199