Chapter 215: The Worm

Camden tried to remind herself that this was a good thing. She didn't want to get married, so it was good that he hadn't proposed and put her on the spot like that. The whole institution of marriage was stupid and pointless, at least from what she could gauge. What was the value of a ring or a piece of paper when people could still cheat and fall out of love and take one another for granted anyway? She'd witnessed all of those things firsthand with her own parents' marriage, so she knew that rings and paper and the 'sanctity of marriage' was not some kind of iron armor against infidelity or any of the other challenges that life can throw at a relationship. Clayton was her mate and that was good enough. That was all the commitment she needed, she reminded herself. But then why did she feel so utterly disappointed now when she had thought he was going to propose but then didn't? She tried to push it out of her mind, instead focusing on what Clayton had said rather than what he hadn't. He