"Alex, why are you defending Olivia? She made me look like a fool just now."

Alexander's gaze shifted away from her, his tone icy as he responded, "If anything like that happens again, you can forget about ever stepping foot in the Hawthorne Family’s mall. I mean it."

"Alex, how can you treat me like this? I have shares in the Hawthorne family business, too!"

"Just because I’m running the family business now, and the fact is that you’ve ...