“How long do we have to fake our engagement?”

“Just a few months,” he replied flatly.

“Why should we make it a few months.” she almost shouted. “It's impossible I can't be engaged to you for so long let's end it in a week.”

“Well I don't want it to be a fake engagement,” he saw Isabella's eyes which were looking at him wide in shock and he ignored her reaction. “It will be quite real except of course that you can rest assured that it won't end the marriage. If you keep thinking of it as fake then you will never fool anybody.”

Isabella was alarmed and knew that...