BookToReadChapter 557 This wasn't the way Forrest had planned for everything to cout, and even he, usually so direct, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed as he caught Mila's wide-eyed look of astonishment. His gaze flickered away, uncharacteristically evasive.
"Technically it's just an engagement," he began, shrugging awkwardly. "And you said yourself, Jade's in charge of the whole wedding. Lethandle this one- let's go with my plan for the engagement party, all right?" "Fine, fine," Mila replied, her tone light. What else could she say? He'd made things incredibly easy for her-she barely had to lift a finger.
Once the basics were settled, however, they hit a snag: the guest list.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtMila started first.
Her closest friend, Miranda Wayne, was still overseas and couldn't make it. On Jade's end, there was no way she'd allow her adoptive mother to travel such a long distance given her health, not even for an engagement. As for the Sutherlands-those relatives had been cut off years ago. No way she was inviting any of them. Then there was Felicity Fontaine. For a long time, this woman had all but taken the place of her own mother in Mila's heart, and Mila desperately wished she could be present for such an important moment. But the whole point of this engagement was to publicly separate herself from the Montgomery family, which made inviting Felicity impossible.
When she finished tallying things up, Mila realized with a strange emptiness that, aside from business associates, she had no one else to invite.
Forrest didn't fare much better.
"My parents aren't coming," he stated bluntly. "They'd only make a mess of things and ruin the evening." The Whitmore relatives were the first names to be crossed off his list.
He could at least invite a few friends, but after years spent living abroad, most of his circle was still overseas. Sof his closest friends and colleagues- especially the mentor he respected most, who was almost like family- simply couldn't make it in time.
In the end, they both sat in silence, staring at each other.
"It's all right," Mila finally said, breaking the tension. She squeezed Forrest's hand and smiled, reassuring him. "It's only the engagement. When we actually get married, we'll hold the ceremony overseas-everyone important will be there then." Forrest hated how much it bothered him, how much he resented the situation. Yet he leaned into her, burying his face in the curve of her neck, and responded with a muffled, resigned, "... Yeah." The engagement mattered to him too. He wanted something official-a status that said he was more than just a boyfriend, easy to walk away from at a whim. He wanted to be her fiancé, recognized and acknowledged, with a real place in her life.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmFrom now on, it would be "us." Once the guest list was finalized, the clock was ticking.
They shelled out extra for overnight printing, burning the midnight oil to handwrite each invitation. The next morning, Howard was dispatched to deliver them-most going out to business partners. And that, really, was what mattered.
With the invitations sent, Forrest and
Mila split up-there were a million other things to handle before then party. Neither realized just how much their news had already set their social circles ablaze.
After all, these weren't just any m ordinary couple getting engaged. And no one saw it coming.
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