Chapter 16
Just as Harrison was about to push open the door his hand froze midair. He looked up in disbelief through the glass panel on the door, taleng in the scene inside.
Inside, Hazel sat surrounded by her friends. Her heavily dolled–up face looked nothing like the sweet, innocent young lady he thought he knew.
She was smug, radiating triumph.
“Of course I pulled it off. Haven’t you heard? That old hag, Scarlett, has already left for the aerospace research base. She won’t be back for at east ten or 20 years!”
The ladies around her erupted into applause.
“Damn, Hazel, you’re really something! You actually managed to break off an ironclad engagement and a massive business partnership between the Yeager and Steele families!”
“Tell us your secret, Hazel! How did you get Scarlett to back out on her own? We need to take notes!”
Hazel smirked. “Oh, I did plenty. For starters, Uncle Harry agreed to the wedding in the first place because I drugged him. He was out of it, and that’s how he ended up sleeping with Scarlett.”
Outside the door, Harrison was stunned.
That night with Scarlett, she had insisted they were both drunk. But Harrison knew that being drunk didn’t feel like that. So, he had assumed Scarlett drugged him to force him into the marriage.
It turned out he was only half right.
He had been drugged. But not by Scarlett. It was Hazel.
But why would Hazel do that?
Not only was Harrison baffled, but even Scarlett’s friends couldn’t understand it.
“Hazel, I don’t get it. Weren’t you basically forcing Harrison to marry Scarlett? Why would you do that?”
Hazel laughed, her eyes glinting with slyness.
“You don’t get it, do you? The Steele and Yeager families‘ partnership is set in stone. No matter what, Uncle Harry had to marry Scarlett. That was inevitable.
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