Free Married to the Bad Boy by Letty Scott Page A

he was second guessing it.
    “Yes, there’s more. To remind you that you are married to one another, I want you to wear these.” He pulled out two white-gold rings from his pocket. “These were the rings that your mother and I wore the night we got married and since it seems history is repeating itself, I think it’s only natural for you to wear them.” 
    “What do you mean, history repeating itself?” I asked, looking down at the ring on the desk, thinking how Brandon had said that something happened sixteen years ago. Could this be a hint to that incident?
    “That’s not for me to discuss with you. You will have to ask Brandon about that since he decided to do this without talking to us about it first,” Louis answered, holding up one the rings. “Now back to the rings, I need you both to stand up looking at one another.” We did as he asked and he handed Brandon one of the rings and said, “I Brandon Gab James Mitchell…”
    Brandon’s face registered irritation and his eyes turned dark. He looked at his father, slamming his hand on the desk with the ring under it. “I will not repeat that name ever. That is not my name,” he yelled at him.
    “Okay, sorry. Calm down, son,” his father said, holding his hands up to placate him. “I, Brandon Gab Mitchell, will protect Kami Van at all costs and treat her like a wife should be treated.”
    As Brandon repeated the words, a smile appeared on his face just like it did yesterday after the minister said he could kiss me.  
    “Kami.”
    I turned to his father as he handed me the other ring. “Repeat after me. I, Kami Van, will treat Brandon Mitchell as a husband is meant to be treated and make this marriage work to the best of my ability.”
    I repeated the words, thinking how this went against everything I had told Brandon of what I wanted the night before.
    After all that was done, I looked down at the ring on my finger, thinking now how this ring symbolized the vow that we made to one another last night. Not only had I brought Brandon into my problems, I have now brought his family into it as well. It was all becoming too much and we should have figured out some other way to keep me safe.
    “Come on, Kami, let’s go to school before he makes us kiss and we know how it went last time.” Brandon laughed, taking my hand and making me wonder why he was in such a good mood now. I found out fast this guy I married, had some serious mood swings and needed help.
    Once we were in the car I knew it was time to ask him about his past again. “Brandon, what did your father mean about history repeating itself? Does it have to do with what happened sixteen years ago?”
    “Yes, but right now is not the time to talk about it. It doesn’t matter what happened in the past for the outcome was the best thing to happen to that person. I just hope I can do the same with you, even if it is only until graduation.” He was gripping the steering wheel. “Please just drop the question about my past. When I’m ready, I will talk to you about it, but right now isn’t the time.” 
    “Then we should talk about what to tell our classmates if they ask about the wedding rings,” I suggested, feeling the anxieties about what others would say as we pulled up into the parking lot.
    “Don’t worry about it. If they have a problem with us being married, let them come and talk to me. You’re my wife now, they’ll just have to get over it,” he replied, shocking me a little that I shouldn’t care what others thought about him, when I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It was fine when I was invisible, but now with Brandon shadowing my every move, someone was bound to notice the rings.
     “Are you ready?” I heard Brandon asking. I just looked out at the school, thinking how it was my safe haven from home. Now it was like the places have been switched overnight and I was about to walk into a battle field.
    “Hey, it’s going to be fine. Just don’t think about what