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?

v ever

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 part ways

throbbed painfully under his grip, likely bruising. “Spencer, it was your who wanted this engagement in the first place, and now you want to call it off. What exactly do the Dorseys take me

classmates, and Spencer, used to getting his way, thought she was the only girl worthy of him. The Haywoods naturally agreed, and Brielle

reason the marriage contract hadn’t been dissolved was because of her status

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secure his

Brielle had been nothing but devoted,

affair with Lillian, and while with her,

the Dorsey family saw her as some cheap commodity to be used and discarded, she

the biggest mistake of my

like a plunge into icy waters. A stifled pain grew in her heart, and she couldn’t

this afternoon. If you’re going to have a

emerge from the conference room, thought he had hit a nerve with Brielle and, with a self-satisfied snort,

and you

punch at him. “I’m heading downstairs.

in disbelief, and he almost shrieked, “What

was a gift for me.

“You!”

his fists in rage. “You’re really all about the money,

not something she was willing

teeth-grinding behind her, she returned to her office. The office was buzzing, and all eyes were

an apologetic grip on her own clothes, Lucinda said, “I’m

tie.

It’s not like it’s

front of everyone, he showed no

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Chapter 6

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