Your mother is coming in

Can you get out of this? Casting a love spell to meet an unknown, faceless man with some money spent to bail out her family was one thing. But the reappearance of the fleshly Eric Swann is another story. If her parents suspected she had made a bargain marriage to save the house, they would never have forgiven her. Or for themselves. With steady monthly medical bills coming from her father's heart condition, family pride would make them refuse any financial help from others. Knowing their daughter sacrificed her integrity to rescue them would break their hearts.

Eric looked at her with a strange expression on his face, as if trying to determine something. Her fingers clenched to avoid reaching out to touch him. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'm fine. Let's go inside."

She watched him go inside and tried not to feel hurt by his brief words. He had warned her that he didn't like large families. She shouldn't be childish thinking that his actions were only aimed at her.

She lifted the han