Marriage For A Price: A Day To Sign Away My Heart

hill lingered in the air, the kind tha

she admitted, "I didn't want to go through with this, Sofia

. "If there had been any way for me to hel

e reputation for cruelty and arrogance stretched all the way from Germany to Spain. Sofia Morgan stood near

either of us could do. I couldn't run, not from thi

ve just handed you off li

were lucky, Sofia. You had your parents, your siblings, your littl

umors were all true-he was as harsh and

tten on her face. "Some of these rules were sickening. Th

uld have changed this for you,

g with me, Sofia. But you had your exam coming

but as soon as I finish, I'll come straight back here."

xam, you should talk with your family-find your own h

ou're family to me, too. You know that. They have their own lives, and I'm just tr

wrapped Sofia in a tight hug.

open, she paused just outside, Catalina's words echoing in her mind and a helpless ach

rom around the corn

y minute. Everything need

know what he's like," one sta

ly in this very hotel? Fate had handed her

seventh floor, and strode down the plush hallway. She found herself

open with delib

er to step inside. Not a word passed his lips. Sofia wondered if perhaps H

fine leather and the smoky sweetness of aged whiskey. At the far end of the room, a man sat with his bac

ectful-but I'm begging you, please don't make Catalina marry you. She wants nothing to do with this arrangement. There has to

r the room, as if the very wa

hair slowly swiv

her heart s

ose grainy photographs. He was younger, strikingly handsome, and yet his eye

his tongue, testing its taste. "I'm afraid I haven't the slightest

not Harr

. The name's Naven Fort. And it seems you've just burst

th caught in

shouldn't have come

e. "No one walks into my suite asking favo

pped back, unease pri

actly are

egant and intimidating. He was taller than she'd anticipated, his p

Meyer. I can put a stop to it. I have pull, c

ingled with suspici

d you want

e. That's the bargain. I need a wife-someone

g in her mind, unable to process the w

blem disappears." He repeated himself,

orgot how to wo

ing?" she whispered, her

m, his movements calm, almost refined, as if

nothing to do with me. And yet, I happen to be someone who could fix them." He stopped just a step a

el catching the edge of t

e. I thought you were Harry Meyer.

aking eye contact. "But depending on what you

dered into something she couldn't undo. Not because he had trapped he

I don't know you. I don't

na's engagement to Meyer." Naven inched closer, his gaze cool and impossible to deciphe

oor. Her breath grew shallow, chest tight

ew nothing about, a man whose voice never wavered with wa

, the quiet tremble in Catalina's voice, the sorrow she

exam, her family waiting at home, her little nephews

eath, Sofia lifted her h