"Helen!" Gina yelled. "Go on! Say yes! It's over for our family if you get cold feet!"

"Yeah, Helen!" Cindy shouted as well. "Do it!"

"Do it!" The audience urged Helen as well, and she looked around, but that familiar face was not there.

And if she said yes now, there would be no turning back.

Even Chaz was glowering at that point. "Are you deliberately embarrassing me, Helen? You'd better take the deal I'm offering, or Frank is a dead man! No, it won't just be him—your mother, your cousin, and everyone serving the Northstream Lanes would all rest in pieces! Make up your mind... No, there's no changing this even if you refuse!”

Chaz's threat left Helen trembling all over, and she eventually closed her eyes and relaxed her knuckles as she gave in.

"Okay..." she said, her eyes filled with misery.

But before she could, the front doors of Graves Mansion were suddenly kicked open resoundingly! “Argh!!!”

"What?!"

one of the Graves’ bodyguards landing

now laying limply on the floor,

crowd then turned to find a towering figure slowly striding

Keep your mouth shut,

again toward Helen and saw that she had clasped her hands over her mouth, tears welling up

"Frank..." she murmured.

his gait upright as he strode inside. His clothes were a mess

hall, having rushed there

"The Graves had some bodyguards, so it cost me some

Chaz was left standing there

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