Master of his heart (Brielle and Max)

Chapter 6

Max’s gaze did a quick sweep over her face before he murmured, “Leave.”

Brielle wasn’t offended, she knew his sternness was just a show of authority for others, not truly directed at her. After all, she did benefit from the situation.

She was about to sweet talk him a bit more when the conference room door burst open. Spencer stood there, his face clouded with anger. “What are you still doing here?” he snapped

Brielle hadn’t expected Spencer to double back like this. He usually paid her no mind. With no choice, she pretended to tidy up the papers on the table, gave Max a respectful nod, and left the room.

Spencer, in his sharp suit, didn’t dare meet Max’s gaze and mumbled, “Uncle Max, I apologize for her ignorance. She doesn’t know any better.

Max responded with a nonchalant “Hmm” and looked away.

Outside, Spencer grabbed Brielle’s wrist tightly. “Did you go squealing to him? For heaven’s sake, Brielle, you’re a lady of the Haywood family. Haven’t you ever seen money before?”

The disdain in his eyes was like a thorn, brutally piercing Brielle’s heart.

Brielle found him utterly ridiculous. She didn’t know where he got the idea that she was money-hungry and promiscuous. Maybe because she had only been brought back to the Haywood fold at the age of ten, he assumed she carried an air of poverty about her.

“Spencer, we’ve known each other for thirteen years. Have you ever given me anything?” she shot back. So what made him think she was after money?

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Spencer clenched his teeth, his irritation boiling over. “You wish! The Haywoods only wanted to latch onto our family’s influence. Let me tell you, stop meddling in things that don’t concern you. I don’t like you one bit. Just stay in your lane, and eventually, I’ll make things clear to my family, and we can part ways amicably.”

Brielle’s wrist throbbed painfully under his grip, likely bruising. “Spencer, it was your who wanted this engagement in the first place, and now you want to call it off. What exactly do the Dorseys take me for?”

Indeed, it was a teenage Spencer who had insisted on the alliance with the Haywoods, charmed by Brielle’s looks and top-notch academic performance. They were classmates, and Spencer, used to getting his way, thought she was the only girl worthy of him. The Haywoods naturally agreed, and Brielle had no say in the matter. The Dorseys probably thought it was just child’s play and didn’t object.

her status as a top university graduate and her choice of a finance major,

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his position

on, and Brielle had been

Lillian, and while with her, he’d take every opportunity to

cheap commodity to be used and discarded,

engaged to you has been the biggest mistake

Brielle like a plunge into icy waters. A stifled pain grew in her heart, and she couldn’t

If you’re going to

fearing Max might emerge from the conference room, thought he had hit a nerve with Brielle and,

and you

wished she could swing a punch at him. “I’m heading downstairs. Remember

eyes bulged in disbelief, and he

a

“You!”

never seen this side of Brielle, and he clenched his fists in rage. “You’re

was not something she was willing to hand

were on her. Brielle frowned upon hearing the whispers about a “fiancée.” Her relationship with Spencer had been

apologetic grip on her own clothes, Lucinda said, “I’m sorry. I spoke too loudly, and

stepped forward, impatiently tugging at his tie. “So they

it? It’s not like it’s

of everyone, he showed no regard for Brielle. She received

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Chapter 6

her just fine. She felt

a Haywood car came

Brielle, the lady

must have been

and before she could even step through