"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?!"

in time to find one of the Graves' bodyguards

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

to find a towering figure

Keep your mouth

toward Helen and saw that she had clasped her hands over her mouth, tears welling up in her

"Frank." she murmured.

Frank, his gait upright as he strode inside. His clothes were a mess and splattered with blood, which told

expression was murderously solemn as he strode into the hall, having rushed there from Southstream. Then, he smiled and nodded

said. "The Graves had some bodyguards, so it

was left standing there

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

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