- 21.
Since childhood, I’d been taught that as the future head of the Jensen family, I couldn’t afford to let emotions rule. Trust your business partners only to a point. Nick Holt, as Holt heir, should have known better. But then, maybe he’d been spoiled, his whole life handed to him on a silver platter.
His mother, once a mistress, had charmed her way to the top, and as an actress, she’d been adored. Nick had never known a world where he wasn’t coddled, where he didn’t have everything his way. To him, marriage was a decision he could make on a whim, unchallenged.
So, when Mr. Halt heard that Nick wanted out of his engagement–after all the public displays, no less–he nearly collapsed with rage. The scandal alone was unbearable. Mr. Holt demanded Nick leave the house immediately and dropped any talk of breaking the engagement.
Nick stormed straight to my villa. At that moment,
1, I’d just finished my
I my “trial” with Julian, feeling drained yet content.
The doorbell rang with insistent fury, and I opened it to see Nick’s face, as expressive as ever.
