He raised his hand high, swinging it toward Eliza's face, but the slap never landed on Eliza's delicate cheek. Instead, it turned into a fist that slammed into the car window. His hand might have been wrecked if it weren't for the privacy film.

"Bang." The glass still cracked.

"Ah..." Eliza clutched her head in fear. She didn't want to provoke him.

Anyone with half a brain would know that she couldn't have done anything in those ten minutes she was inside Zach's studio, but he insisted on assuming the worst.

"Explain yourself," he demanded, his voice hoarse with a hint of madness. "Speak."

Eliza chose silence. She had nothing to say.

He gripped the back of her head, his breath uneven on the tip of her nose. "Is it hard to explain? Are you planning to work with Zach and plot against me? Will you help him become the successor of Welton International? What did he promise you, huh?"

"Nothing."

"I want the truth." His large hand tightened on the back of her neck, causing her pain and making her brows knit together. "Casper, the 'truth' you want is just what you've concocted in your mind, none of which is the truth."

"Then what is the truth?"

Eliza couldn't possibly tell him the truth. "It's irrelevant to you."

interested in sharing her heart with her

lips to hers. She didn't resist, letting him

was domineering and fierce, demanding a response as his hands gripped her slender waist tightly. She was

it made her feel uncomfortable having

spectacle that, in broad daylight, was

could only smoke one cigarette after another to

like forever, the storm of

on Eliza's cheeks, Casper was very satisfied and reached for a tissue to

curled up into a small ball,

"Need help with that?"

tidying herself up and getting dressed. "Casper, I want to ask you

given me an explanation about you and Zach. What

knew he might

my mom's body intact, okay? Even if Nova

voice was filled with

tug at his heart. "Without your signature, who would dare take organs

that common sense, but when it came to what Casper wanted

the hospital

a consent form for organ donation with my mom's name

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