Ring Me Real, Daddy

I put the ring on her finger to shut everyone up.

Now I can’t stop watching it catch the light every time she tries to take it off.

She lied to her family. Said I was her fiancé.

I let her. Then I made it real.

She thinks this ends when the week is over. When the investors leave and her mother stops calling. She’s wrong.

Every time she pulls back, I pull her closer. My villa. My rules. My hand on the small of her back in front of everyone who matters.

She started this.

I’m finishing it.

She wanted a fake fiancé.

She got the man who decided the ring stays.