May Sutton's expression soured. "You! After I treated you so well, this is how you repay me? If I had known you were this heartless, I never should have let you in the door."
"Can't win with logic, so now you're just going to throw a fit? You know better than anyone why you agreed and what you were really after." Cecilia Adler knew her own worth.
'I'm at the age where I can be married off for a bride price. May Sutton never did a thing for me, yet she gets to cash in on a huge windfall. She must have been secretly ecstatic.'
'Especially since I married Ian Quincy.'
'Lucas didn't just get the bride price; he even got a promotion.'
'I don't owe them anything.'
'They're the ones who owe me.'
"What could I possibly have been planning?" May Sutton's voice clearly lacked conviction. "I was just being kind."
