Cooper and Ariel are walking around the yard talking about the years that they have lived there. He tells her about Nicholas rejecting Winter. Cooper tells her the details that Shane told him. Also that they don't know Nicholas's side yet. But he would bet everything that owns that Irving did something to force Nicholas into rejecting Winter.
Irving is an asshole. Every year when we're at one of the balls he's always treeing me as if I'm a squirrel. All of these years I still don't know where he came up with his foolish notion that I was in love with him or that I'll mate with him. I have always treated him nicely. But he took my kindness for something that just didn't exist." Ariel rubs his arm "I still can't ask me to choose between you and him."
Cooper kisses her forehead. "I've alwa
