Just as I'd expected, the second I brought up benefits, he was willing to promise to let me leave.
That night, when Terrence came back after taking a call from the old man, his entire face was flushed bright red with rage.
He clamped down hard on my wrist, every single word wrenched roughly from the back of his throat.
"Romina! Do you hate me that much? You actually used the Colton Group's stock price as leverage to negotiate with Grandpa? Do you have any idea what you're doing? You're shaking the very foundation of the Colton family! You crossed Grandpa's bottom line, and now we're done for good! You'd stoop this low just to get back at me and throw a petty fit?"
I curled my lip in a sharp, mocking sneer.
After all I'd been through, every bone in my body broken, two of our children l
