The car ride was best described as suffocating.
I could feel Karl's constant side glances directed at me, and with every glance, I felt myself tensing up. I didn't like his looks. I didn't like the thoughts going through his head, and I didn't like the stones filling my chest.
Uncle Jax wasn't going to attend the rehearsals or the family pre-wedding party since he was too busy with the company and would be attending only the wedding day. So it was only Karl and me on this three-hour car ride upstate.
My family comes from a long ancestry of farmers, where our corn acres provided raw material for companies both local and worldwide.
"Aren't you going to enlighten me on why exactly you wanted me to come to your sister's wedding with you?" He tried to finally break the hour-long silence.
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