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"How far have you gone with ending this blasted wedding?" Pippa heard her father ask. She had been dreading this moment for the longest time.
She knew that her father had just left her to do whatever she pleased, but tonight was the night he had called her to his office and demanded an explanation as to why the wedding was still going to hold with Angelica as the bride.
"Are you daft or what? Speak." Clink did not raise his voice, however, the coldness in his tone was more than enough to send shivers down Pippa's spine.
"Father I—"
"You what?" Clink interrupted Pippa before she could gather the words she wished to say.
"Father... it is not so easy to do this." She began, her father scowled at her as if that was a good enough explanation. "Usually Ian listens to me, he grants me everything I desire, but not with this." She shivered, she looked down unable to face her father's intense gaze.
