The engagement dinner was still roaring behind her, music, the chatters from the guests and the clinking glasses but she felt she couldn't breathe.
Not with Zade hovering and her father watching her every expression. Not with the cameras capturing every fake smile on her face.
She pushed past a pair of laughing guests and slipped through the tall glass doors that was leading to the balcony. The cold night air rushed over her skin.
She gripped the railing and inhaled hard, trying to steady the shaking in her hands and also trying to convince herself that she's doing this for the future of the Wilfred empire and that it's just for two years.
She had smiled so much her cheeks hurt. She had stood so close to Zade she could smell the expensive cologne clinging to him like armor.
She had pl
