The company that evening had been acceptable. With Kael, I suppose it always was. Nothing exciting. Just tolerable. But the almost kiss had sent me into a head spin. I thought it would be acceptable, but the sense of relief as he sensed it was not what I wanted was beyond belief. The only issue with that was, how the hell was I going to make a marriage work when I could not bear the thought of physical contact with the man I was set to marry?
'Yet you had been about to jump on the man? Prove to him that he wanted you?' Rina snapped angrily as I lay upon my bed. I curled up tighter into a ball. This was not proving to be at all the set up I thought it would.
