Chapter 211
Jessica dropped to her knees. “No.. no. Xander, please. Dad..dad no this this is not true!”
But Xander’s expression never shifted nor did Mason came forward to speak at all.
He crouched before her, his voice like ice wrapped in silk &
“I know everything Jess..I will give you a way out.” Murmurs erupted throughout as people talked if Xander would
there was a slight hesitation…afterall Xander did everything for Jessica Valcruz once,
He just stepped forward, a crisp leather folder in hand.
“Miss Reeves,” he said. “You’ve often expressed interest in joining the Thome household.”
The audience stilled.
Jessica’s smile stretched. “Yes! And 1-8
“Then sign it and you will have a new life free from all stains, I will make everything disappear.”
He handed her the document.
forgive Jessica but
“No engagement. No proposal. Not yet. Just… terms of entry.” A voice whispered in disdain thinking that Xander was still going Jessica &
still going to marry
Blinded by status, Jessica didn’t read it. She scrawled her signature with flair, held it up as if it were a crown.!! “There. Now I’m part of the Thome family.“}
Jessica Valcruz stood beneath the chandeliers with the air of a crowned queen. The gown wrapped around her haphazardly like betrayal dressed in diamonds. Her lips curled into a victorious smile as she stepped forward toward Xander Thome, the newly revealed heir to the empire.
“I love you Xander…no one can love me more than you.” she said, her voice soft as tears gathered in her eyes like a perfect actress who was bullied and her character smeared by conspiracies when she was oh so very innocent.
The ballroom waited for Xander’s reply.#
He smiled but it was the kind of smile the men in mafia were too familiar with the laugh of a killer!!
“Ah. There’s been a misunderstanding.” Xander said coolly. “You’re not mine Jessica Valcruz. How can I the heir of Thom empire marry this casually? When the woman I want comes I will give her the world and organize a wedding on the century…not a piece of paper.” The crowd went still as Jessica froze, the color draining from her face. “What… what do you mean?“!
Xander turned to the gathered guests. His voice was calm and dangerous.
“Everyone, the woman my heart belongs to is a female worth every single luxury in this country, she is worthy of being a queen in every sense not a…prostitute.
By the authority granted under Thome estate law, Jessica Valcruz has signed the binding contract of entry. And as such, she is now the legal wife of the man we owe a certain.. debt of honor to.
Just as gasps rippled through the room, a voice thundered from the far end of the hall.
A hush
Then slow, deliberate footsteps echoed into the ballroom.
From the shadows stepped James Carson along with his seventy years old father Gregory Carson whose entire legacy was dribbled in blood.E
Rumors followed the old mafia man as his wives all died of difficult childbirth but despite being seventy he wasn’t satisfied.”
He obtained women like commodity and was said to be hand them off to his most violent men, unlike him his son James was seen as much more humane,
The room shifted with dread.
Jessica turned, eyes wide “No… no. That’s not possible.
“Jessica” Xander announced, “meet your ‘son” James Carson of the Sicilian Black Order and your husband…my grandfather’s close friend- Mr Gregory Carson.”
James walked toward her, stopping just inches away. He didn’t even look at Jessica’s face because the thought of calling a female half his age ‘mother was an idea which he thought was too disgusting.
But his father needed a female to send to a military facility as a spy who was trained in how to seduce men and offer sex while extracting information so he agreed.
“So this is the gift Thome estate gives my father?” James said, his voice rough with amusement. “My father would first like to see what he is being offered?“)
Jessica stumbled backward, clutching at Xander’s arm.
“Xander no. Pleasel This isn’t what I signed. You can’t…please, don’t do this to me!”
She dropped to her knees. “I will be better I will do anything Just not him. I am Jessica Volcruz!”
James chuckled and despite how Jessica begged to our father he did not even glanced her way…clearly disgusted.
James tumed
Valcruz?” he asked, blinking slowly. “She is a Valcruz?”
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James looked her over with n
new interest.
“As in related to Madam Athena Valcruz?” Xander’s entire body shook as his eyes widened.”
My name cracked through the air like lightning.
Xander’s head snapped toward James
“You know Athena?” he asked, too fast, too stunned.
James gave a slow, dangerous laugh.
“Know her? My men would sooner cut out their own tongues than speak her name wrong. Killian Arrows would burn cities if a man breathed near her. That’s the kind of woman Athena is….ah sorry Madam Athena, god knows how many spies Killian Arrows has planted here…and eitherways I do respect her.”
He looked back at Jessica crumpled, sobbing, shaking in designer heels.}
“And this one? This one’s closer to soil than sky.
Jessica let out a sob. “I’m her sister_”
James’s smile darkened.8
you you better be read
be ready to jump of a
“Sister? You are lucky you are coming with us because the moment Killian Arrows get his hands on y building for death will seem much better than livingt.”
Xander’s chest tightened. Something inside him went still. This wasn’t how it was meant to unfold. He never imagined my name would be dragged into this. Not like this.
dames stepped closer towering over Jessica’s trembling form.
“You may be her blood,” he said coldly. “But I know exactly what you are. I have seen your kind in palaces and gutters.”
“You will serve.” he said, almost gently. “Because I owe a debt to Master Killian Arrows, And now… you will help me pay it.”
Jessica let out a final broken scream as his men stepped forward.
Xander didn’t move.
He just watched as Jessica was lifted begging, pleading and humiliated being dragged from the ballroom like nothing more than the contract she signed.
The music resumed but my biological father Mason Valcruz was n
not done.
