Amanda once again looked towards the lighted stage. She didn't even know why she was so stubborn. She had never been so stubborn about anything before.
When she was a child, when her mother told her to yield to Diana, she never disobeyed her mother. The doll that her father left for her before he left, if Diana liked it, Amanda would give it to her too. Even the book she liked, she never insisted on holding on to it. And even if it was the family inheritance, Amanda had never contested it. It was something that had belonged to her since she was born, but Amanda didn't need it either. If her mother wanted to, it would be fine to leave the position of heir to Diana.
But the man in front of her was different. He made her unwilling to let go. Even at the last moment, when she would hav
