“But Sasha…” Her voice catches. “The man who helped me wasn’t the cold monster everyone thought he was. He risked everything to help a terrified girl he barely knew.” Finally, she meets my eyes. “And watching him with you… he’s grown into someone even better. Someone worthy of my little sister’s heart.”
Tears blur my vision. “Jas…”
“I know what it’s like to be trapped in an arranged marriage to a monster,” she continues. “If I thought for one second that’s what was happening to you, I would have kidnapped you out of there myself. But this?” She gestures to my ring, my belly, my face glowing with happiness. “This is real. And you have my blessing, for whatever that’s worth.”
I grab her hand, squeezing tight. “It’s worth everything.”
The ride home is as chaotic as the first, but this tim
