Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 844

"Brandon Mercer, have you lost your mind? Are you so desperate for a quick buck that you've completely thrown away your dignity?" Bella screamed.

"Or has the Mercer family gotten so addicted to internet clout that you're abandoning real business to become influencers? What does my marriage to Sebastian have to do with you? You're actually leeching off my wedding for stock points?

"I am warning you right now. Sebastian is livid. You have fifteen minutes to scrub every single post off the internet. If you don't, the Mercer Group will never get a single contract from the Blake Group ever again!"

Bella panted, waiting for a reaction.

But the line was dead silent. A long moment passed without a single sound from the other end.

"Brandon!" she shrieked. "Are you even listening to me?"

Brandon's voice drifted through the speaker, dripping with lazy amusement. "Are you done throwing your tantrum?"

Bella felt like she was going to have an aneurysm. "You've gone too far!"

"Too far? What exactly is too far? We broadcasted your joyful news to the world. Instead of thanking me, you call to curse me out?

"Bella, you didn't honestly believe that just because you signed a piece of paper with Sebastian Blake, you could sever ties with the Mercers, did you? Don't forget, your mother is the matriarch of this family, and you are the stepdaughter. Trying to cut us out of your wedding? Keep dreaming.

"Your mother was a mistress who latched onto my father to give you a comfortable life. And you're a homewrecker who stole my sister's husband to get where you are today. We simply leveraged your little celebration to do the Mercer Group a favor. And that upsets you? Well, brace yourself, because you're going to be upset a lot more in the future.

"You'd better figure out your place before you start making threats.

She shoved Sebastian's name to the front line like a human shield.

Brandon scoffed. "Is that so? He didn't want it high-profile, yet he's throwing a wedding that costs millions of dollars? A literal century wedding, and you call that low-profile?

"Get this through your head, Bella. You and the Mercer family are bound together. If you actually have the power to cut us off, be my guest. But since you don't, you better make damn sure we have seats at the main table."

Brandon's implication was crystal clear. Not only was he refusing to take down the articles, but he was going to keep buying bot traffic. With the wedding a week away, he was going to milk this alliance dry to restore investor faith in the Mercer Group.

The public didn't know about their backstage screaming matches. All the investors saw was that the Mercer family was firmly strapped to the Blake empire. In the corporate world, a marriage alliance meant shared blood and shared assets. It signaled to the market that the Blakes would never let the Mercers fail.