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hysterical fi

hought you were dead serious for a minute!” It still wasn’t very f

was, but it’s not,” he said in all

what’s your business with him?” I asked in astonishment as my father pulled a docume

nonchalantly and calmly considering the situation he was

to be a contract?” I suddenly snapped,

other’s treatment lasts, and after you divorce, you will no

fter his money, I got news for him. I won’t marry him. I am

act that you would marry for money. It’s ab

Don’t manipulate me any way you want. Not n

e with which he closed all his deals. Because that’s what I was to him now. A business deal. He

r than Vincent Baker, huh?” It wa

about on TV and in posts on social media. The merciless, overpowering and tediously alluring owner of the Business Forum Empire, one of London’s greatest existing corporations. He rose his corporation from nothing in ten yea

him because people were talking abou

n like Vincent Baker want to marry a woman as anonymous as me? I mean, he was

laring at the contract waiting for me, so stop a

houghts from earlier, wanting to see my father

’s advice before you sig

If the man’s afraid I’ll take his inheritance

tend to discuss them with you or me. But you can read

ust a guy who buys himself a wife?” I asked teasingly,

as it takes or you cannot sign at all and le

o choice. If I’d thought it through, I

woman he’s never met in his life?” I asked rhetorically, because I might never get a strai

“Well, ninety percent of the profits would g

other’s treatment” This thing was going to blow up in his face. I would see to it that thi

I signed. And that was if I could find one who didn’

ho would know how to sell me

ike an enormous weight on my shoulders. It was as if it had a consci

father asked impatiently to put

portant for me than whether I will sign or not. But for the look

upid I

as if my question and co

ou feel prepared to stop by his office to have a c

felt prepared. Who did he take me for

a busy man makes time for me” I

to know is if you’re...

d assimilate what my

thinks he has a choice, then he sh

eeds someone to represent him, if you know what I mean,” father tr

nd no one, not even Vincent Bake

. “I’m going to have a talk with this man full of himself,” I said, enraged by hi