Part 4:7


    What he said was true!


    "Are you a bit under the weather?"


    I slipped the wallet back into his pocket, sizing him up.


    He had a tall, slender frame. If he wasn''t so out of it, I would only be able to see his chin from this close.


    His skin was tanned, and his nose was straight. He was really drop-


    dead gorgeous. "No, I''ve just been tricked," he said.


    I stopped in my tracks, helping him toward the bed. Was it toote to leave now?


    As if he could read my mind, he suddenly grabbed my arm, pulled me close, and threw me onto the bed.


    "It''s toote now," he said.


    I sprang up from the bed, but he pushed me back down.


    "If you''re not nning to call off the wedding, could you do me a favor?"


    What should I say??


    I wasn''t nning to call off the wedding, but being with a guy I had just


    mel...


    "Great, you''re staying," he said.


    He waited for a bit, and it looked like he was sure about how I felt. Then


    he didn''t waste a moment kissing me right there. Two hourster. I was rubbing my wrist, my eyes a bit red.


    The guy who started all this was sleeping like a baby. What a jerk!


    I grabbed the pillow, about to hit him, when there was a knock at the door. Then


    Freddy''s voice came through. "Samuel."


    I didn''t know what to do, but Samuel Floyd slipped past


    me. cracked the door open, and pulled Freddy into the room.


    Freddy looked at me and then shifted his gaze to Samuel, his eyes


    widened in shock.


    "I wanted you guys to get acquainted quickly, but I didn''t mean for you to get this close so soon!" Freddy shouted.


    “Shut up!” Samuel''s voice was feeble but sharp as he slumped back onto


    the bed.


    Freddy''s fists balled up in anger. "Damn! I haven''t punched you, and you''re yelling at me? What did you do to Grace? Just because you''re engaged doesn''t mean you can act like a brute!"


    As Freddy was about to throw a punch, I jumped in to stop him. "Freddy, it''s not what you think."


    "What is it then?" Freddy''s face was flushed as he shot me an angry stare.


    I cleared my throat, feeling uneasy. We hadn''t reached the final part, but we had crossed some lines that


    friends shouldn''t.


    How did I exin this mess to him?


    While I wa at a loss for words, Samuel broke the silence. "You know my family''s situation. I was cornered and had no other choice." Freddy''s frown remained, but his anger subsided a bit.


    On the ride


    home, I couldn''t help but ask about Samuel Freddy let out a sigh and filled me in


    It turned out that Samuel''s


    grandfather, David Floyd, had ns to pass the reins of thepany to Samuel after his marriage was


    settled.


    But Samuel''s aunt, re Walsh, had other ideas. She figured her husband and Samuel''s dad should split thepany down the middle.


    lowever, those two weren''t the


    sharpest tools in the shed.


    Especially his unele, Richard Floyd who got hustled and lost a bunch of cash. If it weren''t for Samuel


    vet


    stepping in, the Floyd family''s wealth could have been cut in half.


    No way David would hand over the family''s legacy to someone like that. When re couldn''t sway David, she decided to make her move on


    Samuel.


    To wreck the marriage, re yed dirty behind the scenes. She really went all out to make sure that marringe never happened.


    Samuel was always on guard against re, but he never expected that she would go as far as to use her own grown son to pull off her schemes.


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