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She sighed and hated that her mother said what she’d been feeling.
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YOUR RESOURCES
“We should get married,” Jace said four days later.
“What?” Talia turned around from where she was rummaging around for something to eat in his pantry. She wanted salt. She snatched the bag of chips and stepped out.
“I said we should get married.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re pregnant,” he said.
She laughed. “And you’re old-fashioned.”
“Talia. Be serious. You haven’t wanted to talk about this and I do. Enough is enough.”
“What is there to talk about?” she asked. “I’m pregnant. We’ve got a baby coming. We get along well, we are spending time together, but still learning about the other.”
“We could learn about each other more if you moved in.”
“You didn’t ask that,” she said. “You said get married.”
He frowned. “What’s the difference?”
She threw her hand up and sent a chip flying that she’d just pulled out. “Are you serious? Marriage is a commitment. Moving in isn’t. And you didn’t ask that either.”
He was telling her what to do. Like West.
“You think I can’t commit?” he asked.
“I’m still reserving judgment and it’s my prerogative to do that.”
“I don’t understand that,” he said.
“Jace. I’m going to lay it out to you. You’re not damaged.”
“Oh, here we go again,” he said. This time his hands went in the air.
She ground her teeth. Guess they were going to learn how to fight too.
Something they hadn’t done once.
The last time it started out that way, she left.
It was wrong of her to do that and she wouldn’t this time. At least not without trying to talk it out first.
“Don’t cut me off,” she said. “I’m saying you’re not damaged, but you think you are. You haven’t been in any kind of relationship longer than three months by your own admittance. We haven’t even hit that yet.”
“We’re close.”
She crunched on some chips while she figured out the next words out of her mouth.
“That’s right. We are. Yay for us. I want it to be longer, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to change my name or put a ring on my finger. You can’t get there until you get past other things.”
Maybe if he said he loved her, she’d think differently about it.
