Chapter 23

He was almost as tall as Liam, only that he stooped a little. He had a fire in his eyes that spoke of so much knowledge. Elena was looking into the eyes of the founder of EliteCorp.

"What is your name?" he asked.

"My name is Elena Cooper." She tried to raise her voice to an audible level. The fever was getting worse. She hoped the man would notice.

"You got married to my son without my consent, right? What were you thinking?" His voice was void of any emotions. Almost the same as Liam's.

Elena stared at the ground. The living room where they were seemed smaller than it was. What was this now?

"Why are you acting like you don't know what you did?" he thundered. Then after a pause, he asked, "Who is your father? Is he in the country?"

A man who sets his daughter up, and then sells her off to a ruthless man to pay for his sins. "He's a businessman," Liam's wife answered.

"And what is the circumstance behind this damn conspiracy of a marriage? Why wasn't I allowed to see and assess the da