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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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

his grip, likely bruising. “Spencer, it was your who wanted this engagement in the first

had insisted on the alliance with the Haywoods, charmed by Brielle’s looks and top-notch academic performance. They were classmates, and Spencer, used to getting his way, thought she was the only girl worthy of him.

of her status as a top university

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help Spencer secure his position at

and Brielle had been nothing but devoted, pouring her heart and soul into

Carried on an affair with Lillian, and while with her, he’d take every opportunity to belittle

some cheap commodity to be used and discarded, she wasn’t about to sit

the biggest mistake of my life. It’s

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

go. There’s a department meeting this afternoon. If you’re going to have a meltdown,

he had hit a nerve with Brielle and, with a self-satisfied snort, released her. “Mom sent

and you

swing a punch at him. “I’m heading downstairs. Remember to transfer that villa into my

he almost shrieked, “What did you

smiling. “Uncle Max said it was a gift

“You!”

clenched his fists in rage. “You’re really all about

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

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

looked up at Lucinda. With an apologetic grip on her own clothes, Lucinda said, “I’m sorry. I

impatiently tugging at his tie. “So they know. What

like it’s going to last

he showed no regard for Brielle. She received many

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Chapter 6

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