Taming the Runaway Heiress

st Isla's chest, making it difficult for her to breathe. She had made her decision-the words had slid from her tongue, irrevocable

memory, reverberating like a malevo

u've just made a d

, standing in his murky presence, she found herself rethinking that belief,

his gorgeous face. Outside, the city gleamed beneath the night sky, a world of vibrancy and life; yet with

illian said, his voice tinged with a te

lifted her chin defiantly, seeking t

savoured revealing her façade. "

and she squeezed her hands tightl

he air, infused with a hint of something darker. "Were you ex

ck, "I came here lo

s, his expression introspective as he examined he

irm tone, he dire

h far into the bowels of the apartment. For a few moment, Isla hesitated, but

n front of an

anner. A quiet beep resonated through the stil

biometric lock?" she qu

ing aside to allow her entry. As soon as she passed the

hamber loaded

e of the space, filled with numerous files, complicated digital blueprints, and towering mounds of paperwor

from merely

s a war

heartbeat rising with a mix of anxiety

homable expression in his bright blue eyes. "This is everything y

er crawled do

daughter meant to be married off for the sake of alliances, an asset to be exploited for their profi

, her eyes settling on a file

Fairc

ach with dread. "How long

his expression cold and

in her. "That's h

her with a careful intensity, each step delib

drowning all her other thoughts.

t open languidly. He slid a solitary im

eath caug

polished meetings at Fairchild Industries, nor standing

lurking in the shadows of a dim alley, shaking h

ongsid

der Cr

and now her

not grew in her gut.

g gaze gripped hers

was a bank statement. A transaction involving millions of dollars.

ld Indu

, this one a contract. Marked as confidenti

r?" Isla muttered, her vo

hough there was a cruelty un

ted dangerousl

he uttere

ree months before your engagement announcement, your father and Alexander hashed out a co

her felt as if it we

es

cessed. The stipulations were unequivocal-upon marrying Alexander, a major chunk of Fair

twisted in

croaked, he

ather was losing control over his empi

way, as she grasped

pbringing and all the values she had held d

lexan

s and enticing glances had been in on it from

her, a blaze like nothing she

e eye of Kill

row, quietly doub

ring my every move," she questio

was an evident menace laced into his expressi

pressed, her determinati

their presence entwined, weighty and electric. There was an ir

ant to obliterate them. And

an throug

e

r, but she

he lay her

anged her life just as masterfull

ly on the de

duplicity, any frail flaws in his façade-an i

nd something alt

alle

rom

at reflected the i

hed wildly wi

time of being exploited.

m

er posture, her res

he questioned, her voice hard and harsh.

k intensified

that, their pa

rm that their choices had unleashed-a tempest far mor