Chapter 8: Answer Me

        Catherine’s jaw ached, and tears sprang into her eyes. She didn’t know what to do. When she woke in his mansion, she had hoped she’d be able to find a way to make things work with him, but now she wasn’t so sure. The truth was she had loved Marco once. She thought he was funny, clever and charming. Though he didn’t have family wealth or connections, he promised her he was going to do great things in life. He’d always told her he was going to be a self-made man, and she believed him. Together they’d laughed at men like Sean who had been born into wealth and success. When her uncle told her she was going to marry Sean, she’d thrown a fit. She told him she despised men like Sean who walked around like they owned the world but had never worked for anything they had. She’d called him cold and passionless and insisted she wouldn’t do it. Her uncle had insisted, and she’d told him he’d regret his mistake. After all, it was the 21st century, young women weren’t married off in business