voice icy as he pushed her into a chair. "We're getting a d

es brimming with desperation. "Please, don't do this. We've grown up together, been ins

d me like that!" Dean's retort was s

her body that left her slumped in the chair, he

gone behind his bac

y burst into the room. "Dean, I have the documents you requested," she

alk some sense into Dean. Remember how you've always been our pe

e university as Dean, and all th

Dean down, and he would make up with Elin soon after. Elin

een through so much together, but what happened at the hotel wa

open the folder, his tone commanding. "Sign it,

heir marriage, Dean suggested they sign a contract. According to

with desperate intensity. "Please, I'll do anything you ask, just don

ce was a mask

into her trembling hand and firmly instructed

ft; within moments, they com

s. Scrambling to her feet, she dashed after him,

she thought she saw Camila's lips

the distance. Just then, her phone shattered the sile

n critical condition. You need t

her as she hastily wiped her t

her, Paula Walsh, had been her sole remaining family. When Paula was battling tuberculos

no

erself as she entered Paula's room, only to find her grandmother's cond

speak, when Paula bolted upright in bed and

on. He was never meant for you, but you wouldn't listen! Now look at th

ula's slap tore it open anew, sending a rivulet of bloo

still in my hands," Elin countered weakly

he held in Infinity Group remained untouched, en

able as she hurled a newspaper at E

back at her: as of seven this morning, Dean had amassed sixty-three percent of I

shares?" Elin's voice cracked, her

onth after their marriage, Dean had casually suggested a s

mutual, Elin had agre

ame, using her trust to usurp Inf

deceive you so thoroughly?" Paula's voice

n as she clutched at her chest, collapsing back