Chapter 25: Leveraging Power to Ignite Possessiveness
(Scarlet's POV)
I should have looked devastated. I should have played the part of the wounded scholarship girl. But my mind was too loud for acting.
I stared at Damon's profile from across the room, my expression cool.
Victoria Thorne had just handed me the missing piece of the puzzle. The engagement between Damon and Chloe wasn't just a merger; it was a debt of honor. Arthur Thorne, the family patriarch, operated on an archaic code. Apparently, the Sterlings had saved the Thornes in the past. To Arthur, that contract was sacred.
"You understand what I'm saying, right, Scarlet?" Victoria had whispered, her ambition naked in her eyes. "If Damon defies Arthur, he loses the inheritance. And then... well, Mason is next in line."
