His Destructive, Toxic Love (Jasper and Eliza)

"Do you really think a port can tie me down? Let me tell you, our engagement is just a business deal."

"You Torres folks give me a port, and I can make you Mrs. Welton. You get to bask in the glory of Welton International, and I get my profit. It's a win-win. Don't act like I've taken advantage of you." "From the start, our engagement was just a piece of paper. If I choose to honor it, it's a contract. If not, I can tear it up anytime, got it?"

He had never truly accepted this engagement, nor had he ever considered her his fiancée.

So... the engagement could be annulled as easily as it was made.

The woman's face turned a deep shade of purple as she struggled to breathe.

Gasping for air, she slapped at the man's hand, "Casper, let me go, you're going to kill me... My grandfather, he's watching us from heaven, if I die, let me go..."

Eventually, Casper released his grip on her neck with a look of disgust, "Remember your place. Cause another scene, and I'll make sure the Torres family vanishes from the face of the Earth."

Susan didn't think she was causing a scene.

She was merely defending the rights of a fiancée.

"How am I wrong? You just... you've never gotten over Eliza." Rubbing her sore neck, she persisted, "Casper, I look so much like your ex-wife, why can't you see me as her? I don't mind being her stand-in. Can't you be a bit more forgiving, a bit gentler with me?"

"Do you think you can compare to her?" He looked at her, a face so similar to Eliza's, yet filled with disdain, "Remember what I just said. If there's a next time, the Torres family can prepare for bankruptcy."

The threat was indeed chilling.

Casper had

meekly

gaze, signaling the driver with a flick of his finger,

stopped at Ronan's place, dropping Susan

you can threaten the Torres family with extinction? I'll make your

to come to the

she died, would he, in his grief, start to see

But...

She couldn't kill someone.

Hire a hitman?

No, that wouldn't do.

would just turn her

daring in thought

she valued her own life too much to risk it over someone like

didn't go to Ronan

Bu

was tell her to endure to appease, to think of the

was tired of

Then, suddenly...

She thought of someone.

had left her his number