Chapter 126

• He gives me a sad smile and squeezes my leg. “Don’t do this to yourself. I am with you and I am staying with you and we are planning a future together and Am knows that. She’s fine with it.” Oh my god…she’s fine with it.
• “Does that mean that she has feelings for you?” I ask.
• He shrugs. “She would if I were single,” he sighs. “Can we not talk about this, please. Amelie is a dear friend who has been with me for a long time when I have been very lonely. She doesn’t have a deceitful bone in her body and she will respect our relationship. I have spoken about you for years to her and she knows what you mean to me. She wants me to be happy, Tash.” I smile and nod and internally swear to myself I will never bring this up to him again. He is under her spell and in all things in Joshua’s world I have been wary of.