Ethan was utterly stunned by what his wife had just revealed to him: that she had agreed to her grandfather’s demand to marry a man who would invest in her family’s struggling company.
The news hit him like a bolt of lightning on a clear day, leaving him numb with shock. Every effort he had made to build their life together now seemed meaningless, vanishing in an instant.
“Lily! What are you saying? Take back what you just said!” Ethan’s voice cracked with panic, his face a mix of disbelief and desperation. Lily’s words were beyond anything he could have imagined.
“I told Grandpa I would become the wife of the man willing to save our family’s business. Maybe… maybe this is the only way I can repay my parents and grandfather for everything they’ve done for me,” Lily replied, her voice st
