Krista's POV

As soon as I said those words, we became silent.

After a while, I asked, "Why are you back?"

Cheney didn't answer, but he faintly said, "I met your stepfather this morning."

"Because Zaniyah called me, I probably guessed. Didn't he object when you said you were going to marry me?" I told him.

"Is he in any right to object?"

I shook my head. "I thought he would say something like my mother disagreed."

"You know him well, but he ended up trading you for the Brennan group. By the way, Krista, why do you have to get the Brennan group involved in this project? You didn’t...