Chapter 8

Rose couldn't look Jericho in the eye. She didn't know how to deal with the situation at all. She agreed to marry him, yes, but she also did manage to trip trying to get him to take his knee off the ground. Rose could still feel the sharp pain on her shin from hitting the floor. But she could also still feel the small rock on her finger.

Somehow, it made her feel safe. She would be caught dead before she admitted that to anyone though.

"Why are you acting weird?" Trick asked Rose innocently, his eyes falling down to the ring on her finger, "Something happened between you and Jericho or something?"

Rose resisted the urge to glare at him, focusing instead on the food in front of her. They had just arrived at Gandhandhi and were now waiting for another one of their friends. Apparently, they left their homes in a mess when they ventured to Emunah, the New Catholics' capital, and they weren't ready to return yet.

Ty grunted, "I didn't want to come back here."

"Well, you don't get to hav