“Had an extended sufficient magnificence sleep?” she inquired peevishly, whereas Valerie made a tender noise of protest.

“I’m leaving,” I mentioned abruptly, in no temper to justify my grief. “We don’t have to battle over him anymore.”

“You aren’t going anyplace. Ian’s gone to get the lawyer for the studying of the desire, and Marcus isn’t again but.”

“I don’t want to listen to the desire—I doubt I’ll be talked about.”

“Don’t be coy, Bella,” Mary Alice shot again. “I noticed the way in which you sucked as much as him, turning him in opposition to the remainder of us. I wouldn’t be stunned if he left you the entire package and kaboodle.”

“I doubt it,” I drawled as finest I might. It was a horrifying thought. I’d don’t have any alternative however to clarify who I used to be, and I might simply think about the cool contempt in Ian’s eyes. “The place’s Marcus?”

“Apparently, he left early final evening, earlier than Granda handed,” Valerie answered, incomes a censorious look from her older sister. “He mentioned he wished to get you a gift to cheer you up.”

Was Marcus actually that dense that he thought a gift can be appropriate recompense for the lack of my grandfather? I used to be afraid he was.

“I’m not within the temper for presents, nor for studying the desire. Somebody can let me know if I come out a pauper or an heiress. Within the meantime, I have to see if Maldonado can drive me to the airport.”

“Maldonado went with Ian to make preparations for the funeral and reception. There’s nobody right here to drive you,” Mary Alice mentioned.

“Don’t you need to eliminate me?” I requested, determined. “You may drive…”

“They took the Mercedes. The one factor left are farm autos and I’m hardly prone to drive a kind of. We’ll simply must get alongside till Ian will get again and eliminates you.”

“Who’s eliminating Bella?” Marcus’s voice boomed into the room. He had an enormous smile on his face, and his vibrant blue eyes had been unshadowed.

“Nobody,” I answered.

“Why all of the lengthy faces? Granda will get better—he all the time does, and the meantime I introduced you essentially the most fabulous current to have fun our engagement…”

“We’re not engaged,” I mentioned. “And Granda died final evening.”

Marcus blinked in disbelief. “No,” he mentioned flatly.

“Sure,” Mary Alice broke in, blowing her nostril vigorously and wiping away her nonexistent tears. “And your fiancée needs to get away as quickly as she will. I instructed her that was unimaginable however…”

“Will you drive me to the airport?” I interrupted as I checked out Marcus. “There’s no want for me to be right here anymore, and I have to get again to…” I used to be about to say New Hampshire earlier than I believed higher of it.

“However your current?” Marcus protested, not wanting notably distraught at Granda’s demise.

“For heaven’s sake, what’s it?” Mary Alice demanded.

“A brand new Alfa,” he mentioned, preening a bit. “Ian mentioned your previous one was totaled, and I understand how a lot you liked that automobile.”

“To procure me a brand new Alfa?” I demanded in surprised disbelief. “Are you out of your thoughts?”

“I like you,” Marcus mentioned as rationalization, and I wished to shake him. “And we’re all about to return into fairly a bit of cash—this’ll be a drop within the bucket.”

“I’ll drive that to the airport and you may organize for somebody to select it up,” I mentioned tightly, ignoring the truth that I couldn’t drive stick. I might determine it out. “I don’t want a brand new automobile.”

“The place’s Ian?”

“Making preparations,” Mary Alice and Valerie spoke in unison.

“Effectively, you actually can’t depart earlier than we bury the previous man. How would that look?” Marcus was now wanting suitably chagrined, and I wished to inform him I didn’t give a rattling, I didn’t belong right here, I wasn’t wished right here, I simply wanted to be dwelling, wherever that may be.

“Don’t fear, Marcus,” Mary Alice mentioned. “She’s not going anyplace. Not till Ian says she will.”

“Ian can go…” I didn’t end the sentence after I heard the door open and the sound of male voices reached us. “He should be again.”

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