I see, Toby thought, nodding. I thought she was picking on Sonia.

“I have to tell you off about this, Toby,” Titus said with a straight face, giving him a displeased look. “Although Tina isn’t officially engaged to you, the news that she’s your fiancée was already announced during the party which was ruined by Sonia. Since she’s already your fiancée, you should at least give her a ring. People will make a joke out of her if she’s got nothing from you.”

“Stop it, Dad. Toby has his own ideas, and we shouldn’t force ours on him,” Tina said hurriedly, tugging at Titus’ sleeve. Then, she cast an apologetic look at Toby as though she was afraid that he would be angry. “I’m sorry, Toby. Don’t take my dad’s words to heart.”

“That’s okay, but Mr. Gray is right. I should give you a ring,” Toby replied composedly.

 

The reason he hadn’t given her a ring this whole time was because he simply didn’t feel like giving her one. That was why he brushed them off with the excuse that he would give it at the wedding. While even himself couldn’t explain why he didn’t feel like giving her a ring, Titus had a point—if he still didn’t put a ring on Tina even after she was his fiancée, everyone would belittle her.

“Toby, are you for real?” Tina asked, beaming at him.

She’s the woman I love, and I promised that I would make her happy for the rest

cried, throwing herself into

her and said, “You left me for a ring. Husbands are more important to girls than

and pretending to be embarrassed when in fact she had exchanged a look with him. That was a look which only the

 

already found out that he was the one in the first private suite, and they came up with this plan to make Toby promise that she would give her a ring to cement her title as

their plan worked, and Toby didn’t even

are generally not expensive, I still want it because the brand only allows a man to

turn down her idea.

she said

equally happy, he felt frustrated. A few seconds later, he peeled her away from himself gently and said, “Let’s go to the party. Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin

let’s hurry there now,” Titus agreed with

family than the Grays, and even though they were not comparable to the Fullers, the Grays still had to show

brightly-lit banquet hall, Sonia was looking around the room with a glass of juice in her

what’s wrong with him recently. He’s Toby’s friend to begin with, but

kind of easy to get

why he kept coming to them, she

him. What were you looking for earlier, darling?” Charles asked and

I’ve not seen him and only heard his voice,” she

you miss me so much, Sonia.” A man’s

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