Chapter 14

Maddox Jensen didn't care who was watching. He dropped to his knees and knocked his head on the floor a few times, then even slapped himself hard. "Ten billion?" Elizabeth sneered, her tone icy as ever. Maddox wanted to cry but held it in. All he could do was try to calm her down. "Name your price. Whatever it takes, the Jensens will come up with it." "Dad, are you out of your mind? For someone like her—ow!" Before Dylan could finish his sentence, his father smacked him square across the face, nearly knocking his jaw out of line. Maddox was shaking with rage, chest heaving. "You miserable brat! Always stirring up trouble! Shut your damn mouth and apologize to Miss Kaiser!" Dylan, somehow summoning a shred of defiance, lifted his head and said through gritted teeth, "I won't apologize to her!" He had never been this humiliated in his life. Maddox had never even raised a hand to him before. But for Elizabeth's sake, he was bowing and slapping himself? This wasn't just insult—it was a sla