C3 Chapter 3

“It won't be like the last time, things would be different,” her stepmother turns to her now, “If this marriage were to happen her name should be in the family registry , she'll have her shares in the company, an inheritance of her own, she would truly be a Sinclair,” it's an incentive, one not quite approved yet but enticing regardless, at least for the moment Mikayla considers it.

“all that for what?- Tying a noose meant for me around her neck?” She asks as soon as that moment fades.

“It's hardly a noose-”

“It's a marriage contract to the heir of a rumored Mafia corporation,with deep roots in the underworld. "It's the first time Kayla has actually said this aloud, she has thought of it, she is sure everyone has thought of it at some point but she had never allowed himself to say it out aloud.

It had been easier to forget that way. “I am not putting my Sisters through it,”

“You surely didn't think about your sisters when you decided to go against my orders and get married to some filthy cop and disgrace me and my family name,” her father says at last.

His words are even and calm despite the sharpness of his tone. it's meant to cut at her, cut at Kayla for disobeying him, for falling in love with someone considered lower than their class, for falling in love at all when love was one of the rare privileges they weren't easily granted in families like theirs, most of all for making the strongest man in any given room flatter for a second.

It takes a second, but then it dawns on Kayla that a few harsh words would never be enough to sate her old man's anger at what she did to his precious name and that his mind's already made up.

It's not a matter of who is more beneficial or expendable, not entirely at least, but rather choosing the option that would hurt Kayla the most.

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