The Bride Who Said No: Escaping the Shadows of Yesterday

Chapter 37

Ronan and Freya clinked their glasses in a toast.

After downing her drink, Freya dug into her purse and slid a card across the table to Ronan.

"What's this?"

"The money for the land."

Freya cracked a small smile, saying, "At the auction, I was just bluffing. I'm planning to buy this land on my own."

"The land in the Southern Suburb isn't worth much. Consider this half a billion dollars a gift from me. Besides, as far as I know, the Dawson Group doesn't have this kind of cash now. Where's the money on this card from?" "You're mistaken. This isn't the Dawson Group's money."

Ronan frowned slightly. "Not the Dawson Group's money?"

"It's the trust fund my dad left me."

trust fund, scheming to marry her off to the Sutton family to get her

canceled the wedding gifts behind their backs, talking Freya into coughing up the money to save the company

unsolved, and Johanna

a dime of the Dawson family's wealth, not just the trust fund

off on any financial

confused. "The Dawson Group is on its last legs. If I don't invest now, Dawson Group is

remained silent with

son to run the company. Then let Leland, the fool,

indulge Johanna and her son when their interests were about to

Freya off at the

door, she noticed the living room lights were on. Suddenly, a force yanked her inside. Freya instinctively cried out for help but was quickly silenced by a hand clamping down on her neck, pushing her against the wall. "Freya,

chokehold on her neck, Freya struggled and

against the wall, Freya coughed violently. Seeing it, Kieran frowned and sneered, "Ms. Dawson, quite the strategy. You are playing fiancée to the Sutton family while keeping Ronan on the hook. What's

Sutton, visiting my home late at night, is it to

auction, wasn't it all 'Ronan, Ronan'?" Kieran tightened his grip on Freya's wrist and said, "If you