A Sudden Resolve by M. Gray

Excerpt from A Sudden Resolve

"You find me wicked, don’t you?” Ava jutted her fingers outright, exhibiting her newly acquired diamond. Her ring finger buckled slightly under the colossal rock’s weight—the thing must have weighed nine pounds.

“Cider?” I asked, looking away, reaching out for an empty styrofoam cup on the refreshment table.

“A diversion!” She laughed, flashing those florescent teeth, her grin matching the cheer of her family’s Christmas party. “Logan, why can’t you seem to care?”

Because you’re supposed to marry me? 

I laughed, indifferent. “It’s better than the cocoa.” I squeezed the thermos button, steaming liquid spewed into the flimsy cup.

“We haven’t chosen a date yet,” she took the cup from my hand, brought the warm liquid to her lips. They parted. Just a slit. The precise crack I needed to tell her how I felt.

“Told your parents?” The careless words fell from my lips. I must tell her. But to remove the façade—

“Richie’s speaking with Daddy right now.”

I traced her nose with my eyes, noticed the smoothness of her cheeks. The scar peeking out from under her left eyebrow—evidence of her love for that brutal game, ice hockey. Three years ago, her favorite choker had broken while she scrambled for the puck. The chain had whiplashed into her face. She had meant to replace it but she never had.

And so I did.

At last.

The most intimate Christmas gift I had ever purchased.

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