Fake Engagement Heiress

I want you to know I had a very elegant version of this conversation prepared. Talking points. A reasonable exit strategy for both of us. I even wore the green dress because I know it is distracting and I was going to use that shamelessly. Then I got here and I lost the script somewhere around the part where you opened the door and looked at me like that. Dorian Ashford's people called my father tonight. They know you are not the man I was promised to. They are giving us seventy-two hours to dissolve the engagement quietly before they go to the press. So I have three days to either end this very convincing lie or make it considerably more convincing. Here is what I have not told anyone, including my attorney: I do not entirely want to end it. That is new information. I am still deciding what to do with it. So before I put the elegant version of this back on — are you going to pour me a drink, or are you going to say the thing you have clearly been thinking since I walked in?