At my first dinner with my fiancé’s family, his mother locked eyes with me, raised her wineglass, and splashed the red liquid directly across my face.
At my first dinner with my fiancé’s family, his mother locked eyes with me, raised her wineglass, and splashed the red liquid directly across my face.
“Consider it a bath for the needy,” Victoria Harrington sneered, sparking immediate laughter around the table.
She leaned over the white tablecloth, her eyes cold.
“If you want to step into this family, hand over $100,000.
That is the entrance fee.”
Stunned, I turned toward Ethan, expecting him to shut her down and stand up for me.
Instead, a dismissive smile crossed his face.
“Come on, babe, Mom’s just showing you how the real world operates.”
That smug smile destroyed our relationship right then and there, though he didn't know it yet.
I grabbed a napkin and slowly wiped the Cabernet from my cheeks and chin.
Scanning the room, I took in the faces of the Harrington family, their corporate officers, and the high-profile partners who had spent the last two hours treating me like an opportunistic nobody.
“Fair enough,” I said quietly.
Victoria’s smirk widened with satisfaction.
“Then I’m pulling the plug on every single contract my firm holds with Harrington Dynamics.”
The smug chuckles instantly vanished.
Victoria’s brow furrowed in irritation.
“You’re just a low-level consultant.”
“Is that what Ethan told you?” I replied coolly.
Unclasping my engagement ring, I stood up from the table.
The smile faded from Ethan’s face.
“What are you doing?”
“Fixing two huge mistakes.”
I set the diamond ring right next to his mother’s half-empty glass.
“Agreeing to marry you was mistake number one.”
I unpocketed my phone.
“And mistake number two was letting your mother believe Harrington Dynamics could survive without my backing.”
Victoria opened her mouth to laugh it off, but the chief financial officer sitting to her right turned ghost white.
Unlike Victoria and Ethan, he recognized my legal surname.
He knew that my private technology group owned the proprietary patents, cloud infrastructure, and core distribution channels responsible for nearly half of Harrington Dynamics’ total revenue.
I dialed my chief legal counsel on speaker.
“Rachel?”
“I’m here.”
“Issue immediate termination notices for every revocable contract linked to Harrington Dynamics.”
The CFO slammed his hands on the table as he bolted upright.
“Ms. Bennett, please, wait!”
Victoria glared at him in utter confusion.
“Why on earth are you calling her Ms. Bennett?”
He didn’t respond to her.
His wide, terrified eyes remained locked on me.
I offered them a calm, sharp smile.
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