My heart slammed against my chest as I took in what my stepmother just said.

They are pushing our marriage date up, why?

We were supposed to get married in six months time, the only reason the marriage had not happened sooner

was that Xavier’s father was trying his best to find

a way to destroy the contract seeing that the Harnes family had lost its wealth.

Still, I was no longer the heiress to the little fortune left—it had all been transferred to Natasha, regardless of the fact that I ...