Master of his heart

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Max’s gaze did a quick sweep over her face before he murmured, “Leave.”

Brielle wasn’t offended, she knew his sternness was just a show of authority for others, not truly directed at her. After all, she did benefit from the situation.

She was about to sweet talk him a bit more when the conference room door burst open. Spencer stood there, his face clouded with anger. “What are you still doing here?” he snapped

Brielle hadn’t expected Spencer to double back like this. He usually paid her no mind. With no choice, she pretended to tidy up the papers on the table, gave Max a respectful nod, and left the room.

Spencer, in his sharp suit, didn’t dare meet Max’s gaze and mumbled, “Uncle Max, I apologize for her ignorance. She doesn’t know any better.

Max responded with a nonchalant “Hmm” and looked away.

Outside, Spencer grabbed Brielle’s wrist tightly. “Did you go squealing to him? For heaven’s sake, Brielle, you’re a lady of the Haywood family. Haven’t you ever seen money before?”

The disdain in his eyes was like a thorn, brutally piercing Brielle’s heart.

Brielle found him utterly ridiculous. She didn’t know where he got the idea that she was money-hungry and promiscuous. Maybe because she had only been brought back to the Haywood fold at the age of ten, he assumed she carried an air of poverty about her.

“Spencer, we’ve known each other for thirteen years. Have you ever given me anything?” she shot back. So what made him think she was after money?

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teeth, his irritation boiling over. “You wish! The Haywoods only wanted to latch onto our family’s influence. Let me tell you, stop meddling in things that don’t concern you. I don’t like you one bit. Just stay in your lane, and eventually, I’ll make things clear to my family, and we can

bruising. “Spencer, it was your who wanted this engagement in the first place, and now you want to

performance. They were classmates, and Spencer, used to getting his way, thought she was the only girl worthy of him.

dissolved was because of her status as a top university graduate and her choice of

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secure his position

had dragged on, and Brielle had been nothing but devoted, pouring her heart and

while with her, he’d take every opportunity to

family saw her as some cheap commodity to be used and discarded, she wasn’t about to sit back and

engaged to you has been the biggest mistake of my life.

words were meant to wound, and they struck Brielle like a plunge into icy waters. A stifled pain grew in her heart, and she couldn’t help but wonder

If you’re going to have a

conference room, thought he had hit a nerve with Brielle and, with a self-satisfied snort, released her. “Mom sent you to spy,

and you

swing a punch at

bulged in disbelief, and he almost

a gift for me. So, please tell Lillian to move

“You!”

had never seen this side of Brielle, and he clenched his fists in rage. “You’re really all about the money,

bother to refute. A two-million-dollar villa was not something she was willing to hand over to

was buzzing, and all eyes were on her. Brielle frowned upon hearing the whispers about a “fiancée.” Her

her own

tugging at his tie. “So they know. What can you

like

showed no regard for Brielle. She received

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Chapter 6

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