Chapter 74. Marrying Her

“It wasn’t only your brothers.” Her father went on. “Cedric’s words have a part to play in it. You should be grateful.”

“He’s right there.” Her mother tugged at her arm, her smile widening. She gave Cedric a proud look before turning back to Lucy. “You can’t believe this. But Cedric’s willing to let everything gone. You are going to get married and all will turn out well.”

Her mother’s words hit her like a ton of bricks and Lucy’s head snapped to Cedric. In fact, she wasn’t even surprised.

After what he mentioned at the bar last night about her belonging to him, she had expected to hear something similar. But marriage, and not another engagement? Both ideas carried the same enormity but she never thought he would directly speak about marriage.

“You will get married to him and every rumor will be cleared.” Her father’s words snapped her back to her senses. “And that should happen as soon as possible. This way, no one will speak of what happened again.”