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ELLA

“This is where we are going to be living for the next two years?” Charlie lets out in awe as the car that Bennett sent to pick us up, drives through the gate to the Lane property and leads us to the main house.

“Apparently so.” As the car drives up the long driveway that is lined with trees, I see the house in a newer light than I did when I first came her last week.

The last time, I was able to admire the property for how expansive it was and the architecture that made it feel like the house had age but still modern. It looked like the house belonged in a magazine.

Now as we drive up, I pick on the little things that I didn’t notice last time. Like the fact that the trees all have ‘children at play’ signs attached to them, or even that there’s a swing set close to the house and bikes and toys scattered everywhere. Things that make this huge ass property actually feel like a home.

But it will it feel like my home?

God, I sure hope so. I don’t want to spend the next two years being miserable.

The car pulls up to the house and for a solid thirty seconds, both Charlie and I just sit there, looking out the window and staring at the house in awe.

Was the house this massive last week?

It had to been but I wasn’t paying attention. I was concentrating a little too hard at how good Bennett looked in an all black suit to take notice at how big the house was.

“This house is huge.” Charlie says, her face nearly plastered against the window.

“This is going to be the biggest house that I will ever live in.” I voice with the same awe in my voice as my sister.

That awe increases when the driver opens the car door and holds out a hand for me to step out of the car.

I guess this my life now. Where I live in massive mansion and have people opening the door for me every time I get out of a car.

I’m so much in my head as I get out of the car, that I don’t notice that Bennett has stepped out of the house and is walking to meet the car a few feet away until Charlie says something.

“Oh my god. You didn’t tell me I was going to know two of them.” She whisper yells in my ear, as she gets out of the car.

“Huh?”

“I know two of his kids. They go to school with me.”

Right. I forgot about that small detail.

Hopefully they aren’t completely assholes and don’t make Charlie’s life a living hell both at home and at school.

But I don’t say that to my sister.

“He mentioned it once, but I completely forgot to tell you. They aren’t bad kids are they?” I try to keep my voice low, to make sure that Bennett doesn’t hear me thinking the worst about the his kids.

Charlie shakes her head. “Not from what I’ve seen.”

That’s good I guess.

You can’t judge them without getting to know them.

Do I want to get to know them? I’m only going to be here for two years and them I’m gone. If I get to know them, or even get close to them, then all of us could be hurting when it’s time for me to leave. I don’t think I would be able to do that.

But it’s something that would be important to Bennett.

Looks like I will be doing things that make him happy for the next two years and for some reason, I’m okay with that. Really okay with that.

I need to get my mind straight and not get lost in this damn marriage.

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