The lost heiress never forgiven

The Lost Heiress 278

Chapter 278 No Room to Negotiate

Johnathan paused, then let out a quiet laugh.

“You’ve learned how to play the game, huh?”

He had asked her a direct question about Shane, but she’d changed the subject and brought up last night instead–using guilt to shift the balance in her favor. It was a clever negotiating move.

Caught red–handed, Sierra looked away a little guiltily, but she still didn’t budge. “Promise me first.”

Johnathan tapped his fingers rhythmically on the steering wheel. Negotiating with her was new, and honestly kind of funny, He played along.

“The second thing? Sure. But the first one? No.”

Sierra opened her mouth to argue, but he cut her off. “Not even if I’m dead”

So that was a hard no,

She pressed her lips together. “Then no separate rooms–but you’re not allowed to do what you did last night again. That’s my bottom line. Non–negotiable.”

She threw his own words back at him, which made Johnathan laugh despite himself. He’d been irritated about the whole Shane situation, but that little deflection actually made the frustration ease off a bit.

“Alright, I agree. Now can we talk about Shane?”

She knew there was no dodging it, but at least the fire in his eyes had cooled. She took a breath and told him about Shane’s last visit to the university.

She left out the part about the flowers, but Johnathan wasn’t fooled.

that?” he asked.

choice but to

Johnathan just laughed–angrily.

I hadn’t asked, you weren’t going to

us.” Sierra clearly didn’t take Shane’s so–called confession seriously. To her, it was just a pathetic

didn’t respond. He just

a hint of attractiveness, they’d be targeted–unless they had someone protecting them. Sierra had been bullied, yes, but she’d never been

had been going on for years. Kason was just the boldest and most disgusting of them all.

protecting Sierra all along. It wasn’t the Xander family. They’d never lift a finger

reach–and the twisted enough logic–to do it,

tell her any of this. He wasn’t about to defend another man

clearly had a death wish. Even now, knowing who Johnathan was and what Sierra meant to him, he

Capital City got

it,” Johnathan said. “Leave it to me. He

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it going

“No.”

was enough for Sierra. She didn’t

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because she knew how petty he could be. If she kept asking,

thought the whole thing was

had clearly

word–not a single visible mark.