163. Don't You Dare.

To Gavin what was happening around him was nothing but mere noise, generated by none other than his inlaws who clearly did not like him and had orchestrated everything to see that he did not end up with their daughter and sister.

The only person he wanted and, as he thought, needed to hear from, was none other than Meghan, who sat quietly at the corner, but was also visibly shaking on the wooden chair she sat on.

He turned to her, ignoring all the blaming and finger pointing from all the other members of the family, and placed his hand on her quivering shoulder. "It's going to be alright. Do not worry about this, I will fix it. I promise you."

Meghan stirred her neck to his side, and after that came her palm waving through the air, landing painfully on Gavin's cheek. She had given him a real resounding slap.

"Don't you dare touch me, after what you just did" she screeched at him. He took a step back with hands hanging on the cheek of his face as well.

Everybody around him mumbled a