"Helen!" Gina yelled. "Go on! Say yes! It's over for our family if you get cold feet!"

"Yeah, Helen!" Cindy shouted as well. "Do it!"

"Do it!" The audience urged Helen as well, and she looked around, but that familiar face was not there.

And if she said yes now, there would be no turning back.

Even Chaz was glowering at that point. "Are you deliberately embarrassing me, Helen? You'd better take the deal I'm offering, or Frank is a dead man! No, it won't just be him—your mother, your cousin, and everyone serving the Northstream Lanes would all rest in pieces! Make up your mind... No, there's no changing this even if you refuse!"

Chaz's threat left Helen trembling all over, and she eventually closed her eyes and relaxed her knuckles as she gave in.

"Okay." she said, her eyes filled with misery.

But before she could, the front doors of Graves Mansion were suddenly kicked open resoundingly!

"Argh!!!"

"What?!"

find one of the Graves' bodyguards landing among

and he was now laying limply on the floor, spurting blood and his

turned to find a

Keep your mouth shut, Helen Lane!" the

toward Helen and saw that she had clasped her hands over her

"Frank." she murmured.

as he strode inside. His clothes were a mess and splattered with blood, which told everyone

into the hall, having rushed there from

Graves had some bodyguards, so

bodyguards." Chaz was left standing there gaping in

security force of three hundred strong who guarded every inch of his family's compound. Most of

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