The Ruthless proposal
“This loan is dated three years ago, Damian. You told me you’d owned the debt for a while. You didn’t tell me you’d been building it since before I even knew your name existed.”
“Sofia, let me explain the context before you draw conclusions that aren’t—”
“Aren’t what? Accurate? Because this looks fairly straightforward to me. You didn’t simply discover a struggling restaurant’s debt and decide to make an offer. You built this, intentionally, over years, and then arranged to marry the daughter of the family you were quietly ruining.” My voice cracked on the last word, and I hated myself for it, hated that even now, catching him in exactly the lie I’d suspected, some part of me was still searc