Chapter 425 Stay Here Forever, Seriously

• She couldn’t quite sort out how she felt about Eric Goodwell, but Alice Hilton knew this much: they hadn’t known each other long. Still, in just three short months, she’d had more joy, shocks, and thrills than in all her twenty‑seven years put together.
• If you looked at it another way, the two had been engaged for a while thanks to their elders playing matchmaker, yet nothing real had ever happened between them.
• For both of them, marriage had basically been a transaction.