Chapter 13

Aria's POV I stared at Aiden's name on my phone screen for a long moment before answering. "Hello?" "My grandmother moved up the timeline." His deep voice came through without preamble, straight to business as usual. "What do you mean?" I asked, pulling myself together and wiping away the last traces of my tears. "She's arriving in two days instead of next week." There was a slight edge of frustration in his tone. I sat up straighter. "What!?" "Two days from now. You'll need to move your things into our home before then." "Two days?" I repeated, momentarily stunned. That hardly gave me any time at all. "That's... very sudden." "I understand the inconvenience," Aiden replied, his tone softening slightly. "But my grandmother is quite... determined once she makes up her mind. If she arrives and finds you're not properly moved in, she'll immediately suspect something isn't right with our marriage." I sighed, running a hand through my hair. This arrangement was becoming more complicated by