he let me out.
Chase was doing the same thing again, but my
sister was just yelling like a moron..
Compared to my sister’s hysteria, Chase.
seemed both hurt and helpless.
“Mom, Dad, I might as well tell you the truth.
Lily is scheming to take over my family
business. She wants my shares, and when I told
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her no, she threatened to make me regret it! I
thought she was just upset, but I never thought
she’d embarrass me like this…”
My dad was pissed.
“Lily, you’re out of control! I’m not dead yet!”
“I didn’t!”
My sister was always stupid and greedy, and
now no one believed her.
But I knew she’d thought about it, she just
didn’t have the brains to pull it off.
Chase was the one with the ambition.
He was the son of Chase Sterling’s dead first
wife.
On the surface, he was respectful, but
underneath, he hated everyone and thought
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everything the Sterlings owned should be his.
My sister wailed, “I want a divorce!”
My dad slapped her.
“Listen to yourself!”
In families like ours, we can enjoy all the money
in the world, but we can’t control our
marriages.
Divorce wasn’t an option.
My sister knew this, but she didn’t care.
Things were worse than last time.
She glared at me and Jake.
“Switch! I want to marry Jake! Lily should marry
Chase.”
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Everyone was shocked.
“They haven’t even slept together! Why can’t
we switch?”
My sister pointed at Jake.
“He left last night! He wasn’t here!”
Everyone looked at Jake.
Jake puffed out his chest.
“I was in the house with my wife all night.”
“Liar! Lily, tell the truth!”
I smiled sweetly.
“Jake stayed with me all night. You can ask the
maids or check the security cameras.”
“How?”
My sister realized something.
“Why did you come to present tea to your
parents? You shouldn’t have come!”
Jake took my hand.
“That’s weird. Lily is my wife. It’s only natural
that I come with her.”
“Natural? You care about that now?”
My sister laughed like a psycho and glared at
- me.
“Lily, you are sneaky.”
I took out the contract from my purse.
“Sis, you said we couldn’t take it back. You
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promised we would never divorce, don’t start.
Go home with your husband.”
My dad said, “Lily, you’ve gone too far.
Apologize to Chase and go home.”
Chase took her arm, his gold–rimmed glasses gleaming.
“Honey, let’s go home.”
My sister’s eyes widened.
“I don’t want to! I want to marry Jake! I don’t
want to go back with Chase!”
“Don’t even think about it.‘
