Chapter 714

• The night before the wedding, there’s a huge dinner party normally for the parents of both the groom and bride. I met Adelie’s parents, but I instantly disliked them, and I’m sure the feeling was mutual. I was forcing their daughter to marry me. Sacha seemed oblivious to the tensions around the table, and Kiran kept staring at Julien, Adelie’s father.
• Kiran didn’t like the manner in which they treated me, and I could see him trying to keep control and to not lose his temper. In his mind, we had saved Adelie, whereas they hadn’t even lifted a finger to search for her. He was in two minds about saying something even though I’d told him to just leave it. So glaring it was.
• Her mother, Amelie, barely greeted me, and conversation around the dinner table was a bit stiff. Meeting my family was a bit of an adrenaline rush on its own when you met them all at the same time, although Sacha was more relaxed than I had anticipated.