After knowing my boyfriend betrayed me, I agreed to a family marriage

I’d been secretly dating my dad’s long-time friend for eight years, and we were finally planning to go public.

Excited, I called my dad, asking him to meet me back in Riverwood. But when I got to boyfriend place, I overheard him talking to his best buddy.

“Julian, you’re going on blind dates behind Eleanor’s back? Aren’t you afraid she’ll find out and dump you?”

He chuckled softly, his answer annoyingly confident.

“She won’t.”

“All these years, she’s stayed by my side without any official status. No matter how much she put up with, she never once broke up with me.”