Chapter 12 All According To Plan

“It had nothing to do with Lucille, Dad,” Zack said.

Unable to stop Lucille’s departure, the only thing he could do was cast his fear aside and appeal to his father.

Although he had resented Lucille for putting him in such a compromising situation, witnessing Lucille’s desperate attempt to defend him ultimately inspired his masculine instincts to protect her.

“Shut your mouth and remain on your knees!”

Zack relented under his father’s furious gaze by doing as he was told without further protests.

 

The going awry of the impending wedding made Jacob anxious and the Xander family embarrassed. Only Hannah and Michaela remained so impassive that their emotions were indiscernible.

Michaela and her mother. “It was all Zack’s fault, Hannah,” she said with some hesitance. “You

 

“Cancel the wedding!”

of certainty, and her determined expression made her declaration impossible

all, everybody was aware that it was Zack’s fault. Despite the impossibility of going through with

said cautiously, “All men are like that, Mich. Infidelity is

so charged by his nature that he was forced to get in bed with my sister? I didn’t know you were so unprincipled, Dad.” Michaela’s eyes were cold and

his daughter’s public reprimand, Jacob did his best to remain patient. “I want you to think carefully, Mich. Marriage is

principles,” Michaela said

live the way I want. But if he couldn’t even stay loyal to

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