Chapter 169
That night, Aaron seemed preoccupied with something. Instead of pestering me nonstop before bed like he usually did, he squeezed me close to him like a pillow all night.
I’d rather be Aaron’s pillow than have him folding me up like a pretzel in various sex positions, so I didn’t complain. After all, Cinder and I were planning to go skiing the next day.
But to my shock, during breakfast the next morning, Cinder suddenly announced, “I’m a little tired today, I don’t want to ski.”
She blinked over at me. “Olive, why don’t we go shopping instead?”
I’ve never really liked shopping, and there was a big financial gap between me and Cinder, so I couldn’t shop at a lot of the stores she liked. But when I looked into her expectant face, I couldn’t say no. I was guessing she wanted me to follow her around and carry her bags while she shopped, so after thinking about it for a while, I nodded and agreed.
My attention was completely focused on Cinder, so I missed the way Aaron’s fingers were trembling, and the way his eyes lit up when I nodded.
After breakfast, Cinder hurriedly dragged me straight out of the
house.
She drove fast, and in less than half an hour, the two of us were in the city. But instead of driving us to a shopping mall, she took us to a luxury spa in a fancy, ornate building.
I was a little taken aback. Why did Cinder bring me here?
Cinder had already gotten out of the car. She walked around to the passenger side and knocked loudly on the door. “What are you staring at? Get out of the car!”
What did she want me to do? I pushed open the door, confused. As soon as I got out of the car, Cinder grabbed my arm and charged ahead into the building.
She snapped her fingers briskly at the blonde woman who approached us as we walked in. “We’ll get your best facials, and we’d like our hair and makeup done, too.”
me even more. “Why do I
Ever since the moment she decided she
was wrong, but Cinder pulled me into the spa treatment room before I could get a word in. She rolled her eyes and said matter-of-factly, “I paid good money to get us a team of beauticians from L.A. If
daze as Cinder
carefully from head to toe. “I think her lipstick color isn’t dark enough. And the eyeliner needs to
artist immediately came over to touch
at me intently in the mirror, and I felt
my elaborately
had to look away.
Aaron would be surprised to see me like this when we
my mind started to wander. I still didn’t know what he’d been talking about
shoulder lightly. “You pretty princess, now it’s time to pick out your
had her makeup done. But compared to my look, her makeup was
brought me into another room to pick out my clothes, I tugged at her hand. “Wait, Cinder… What exactly are we
family reception I want to take you to tonight. I can’t get
events were usually just a bunch of strangers mingling and
Cinder didn’t wait for me to agree, just dragged
chose an elegant, flowing gauzy white gown for me. I shook my head as
kind of reception, I always preferred to stay on the
to get everyone’s attention, so I
had never worn such an
and started tugging at the clothes I was wearing. “Your
harder. I didn’t want to be the most beautiful, I just wanted to fade into the background so no one would notice if I
clicked her tongue disapprovingly and brought up another point I couldn’t argue with. “Don’t you want to see Aaron’s reaction to you in this dress? I think he’ll
make me pause for