Chapter 2



Conrad looked up at the sound of my voice, his gaze landing on my face.

I didn't need a mirror to know I must have looked pale.

"Not feeling well?" His brows furrowed slightly.

Silently, I walked to his desk, swallowing the bitter taste in my throat. "If you don't want to marry me, I can tell Jacqueline."

The wrinkles between Conrad's brows deepened. He knew I had overheard his conversation with Jefferson.

My throat felt salty. "I didn't expect to become an unwanted dish, Conrad..."

"In everyone's eyes, we're already husband and wife," Conrad interrupted.

I wanted him to marry me because he loved me and wanted to spend his life with me. With a snap, Conrad closed his pen, his gaze falling on the ID in my hand.

I wanted to hear. But at

shaking it. "Conrad, you don't have to force

Conrad called my name with

meet his impatient eyes as he

on the ID. His jaw

didn't move, the

figure looming over me, and he sighed lightly, a hint of resignation in his voice,

all

save face." His hand grasped my arm, then slid down to

ID in a drawer, and grabbed his jacket. "I need

seemed to be going out and

him, "do

on his left cheek. Conrad had a beautiful smile, warm and inviting. When I first joined the Wagner family, he approached me with that smile, calling me, "Tittle one." That smile warmed me and made me fall for him hopelessly. Even

else would I drive across the city to get

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