CHAPTER 17

Connor slowed down and parked his car among the rolls of large flashy cars lined in the parking lot. We did not come out of the car immediately and instead, remained inside the car for a minute. Deep down, I felt grateful for the little time I had to compose myself and I took a deep long breath in. "Are you okay?" He gave me a look of concern and I was surprised at myself when I shook my head in response. "No. I'm nervous." "If you don't think you can pull this off and probably think of backing off, it's perfectly okay..." I laughed now, cutting him off from completing his sentence. "Why do you keep giving me the option of leaving?" I could hear and taste the hurt in my voice. "Because, Kenzie..." His eyes searched into mine, soft and worried. "Once you step out of this car and into the party, you lose your old life and this...this becomes your new life. I will claim you and you will become my woman. My woman and no one else's but mine." The tension in the car thickened with the