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There's a rule in my hometown: marry by thirty or the elder picks for you. Blake laughed. "What are you, in a cult?" He handed my ring to his assistant Ashley. "I was going to propose. Now we need space." I waited years for that ring. He gave it away. He thought a ring could control me. He was wrong. I don't want the ring anymore. And he doesn't need to keep his job either. There’s a rule in my hometown. If you’re not married by thirty, you have to go back and let the town elder set you up. When I told Blake Thornton, he just laughed. “What are you, from some kind of cult?” “Cora, I said I’d marry you. That’s not a threat. But you trying to force my hand? That’s a different story.” He pulled out a ring and handed it to his assistant. The girl blushed as she took it. “I was going to propose. But since you’re acting like this, maybe we need some time apart.” The ring I’d waited years for. And he just gave it away. I stood there, stunned. Blake strolled out of my office with that smug grin on his face. Ashley Miller held the ring out to me. I didn’t take it. “Keep it. He bought it for you anyway, right?” “It’ll fit you perfectly.” Her face went white. I showed her to the door. Right before I closed it, I said, “Tell your Mr. Thornton we’re done.” *** That night, when Blake got home, I was already packing. He stopped when he saw the two big suitcases in front of me. “You came back without me today?” Same old story. He always decided when something was over. And I was supposed to take the out he gave me. Pretend everything was fine and keep playing the perfect couple. But I was done pretending. “Didn’t your little assistant pass along the message?” His jaw tightened. Like I’d stepped on a nerve. “I’m trying to talk to you like an adult, and you have to be a girl about it?” “Ashley’s like a sister to you. You brought her here yourself. So what’s your problem now?” He wasn’t wrong. I did bring Ashley to the company. She’s from my hometown. The elder told us to look out fo
