His Enemy, My Husband

adn't stopped ringing-calls from her parents, her

cause she didn't want to, but be

been essentially kidnapped by h

he perfect revenge in

t her mind. So she kept ignor

de shock. Right after breakfas

y is at the

en, panic turning her limbs to stone. Dam

te," she managed to whisper, the

potted her father, Robert Carter, standing firm at the center. Beside him, her mother, Mariam, wor

d smile, Isla

ia... why didn't

Call? Oh, We did. Only that you

r. "What's going on honey?" her

e you ev

her gaze to Sophia, who se

repeated, "I can explain." But their voices rose, echo

turn. She kne

eyes darted past Isla, going str

" her fat

e. She knew how he had always wa

for them. Now, here she was, standing outside with her family,

be furiou

till couldn't look at him. Instead, she kept h

d their eyes on Damian, th

r, when he finally opened his mouth, his

iendly, and surp

was actually planning t

tes, Damien had disarmed them more completely than she had

formed, her father nodding in a

r coffee in one of the grand sitting rooms. Dam

her, who had initially been reserved, gradually started to open up, suddenly talking mor

ily. Starting from how he was once a successful busines

ed between them: "

s paused around

ial corpses now works for the gov

tealing my bank's assets," her father said bitt

how Damien had made her father say all this in just a few min

he grand piano, running his thumb over a silve

urprised. "They'

ft with none of them even bothering to ask the questions th

of disbelief

wouldn't be ringing

return to her room, Dami

et. We have the gal

team of stylists swept in. "W

Damien, who now had his si

moothly toward

k. We have to put on

loss, but before she could prot

ir as they took her measurements,

ed against the frame to relax

his gaze now, something Is

tylists remarked, cutting off her thought. "Y

yes returned to the mirror for the umpteent

rumbled in

questions she had been nursing f

till playing

e already start