This is a Short Contemporary Romance Story and the third installment in the Short and Sweet Series.
He looked at me and then at Matteo.
"I've seen the love between you two and I know you will make each other very happy. You very much remind me of my own love story."
"Oh, Nonno," I said and felt tears springing to my eyes.
"Both of you are entering a very important stage in your life. But I have one thing to ask of you."
"Anything," I said and grabbed his hand.
"Matteo, Caterina," he said. "My wish is to see you wed before my death."
I inhaled a breath and immediately looked to Matteo.
Matteo took my grandfather's other hand and said,
"You'll have your wish, signore."
I couldn't believe what Matt was saying.
Did he really mean that?
I wanted to ask him when we left the room. I wanted to ask him on the way back home. And when he dropped me at my place, I really wanted to ask him.
But I didn't.
I was too afraid.
Because inside I knew he didn't mean it. I knew he was saying it to make nonno feel better. But I knew he made it worse.
I wanted to shout at him. Tell him he shouldn't have done that.
Because he had to know, he must know that it was an empty promise.
MATT AND KAT have been friends since birth, bonded by their families' close-knit ties to each other.
Tired of his parents' complaints and endless setting up with strangers, Matt accidentally reveals that he has an imaginary girlfriend.
While Kat gets ambushed by her mother again for the hundredth time after her mother sees a wedding dress in a boutique.
After a night of discussing their parents and Matt's dilemma and tired of their nosy Italian parents, Matt and Kat decide to pretend to be engaged in front of their families so they can back off for some time until they break off the engagement and stop trying to set them up with people. But things don't go as planned when their families are actually happy about their engagement and Kat's grandfather falls ill and it becomes his dying wish for them to get married.
