Reign's breath caught. "You... what?"
"I paid him to skip the date and let me take his place," Dashiell said without hesitation.
He had paid half a million dollars to be precise, but Reign doesn’t need to know.
Reign's mind went crazy with confusion and shock. "Why would you…why would you do that?"
Dashiell held her gaze, his expression unreadable as he said. "My brother wanted to partner with your father's company. It was his dream project, merging Pierson International's resources with Sutton Technologies' innovation. at least, that's what I think it was."
He paused, his jaw tightening.
"But he died before he could finalise it. And when I heard your mother was setting you up with desperate men who just wanted your inheritance, men who would bleed your father's company dry…I couldn'
