Over the next few days, Alex was still wrestling with the question Eliott had asked her. She turned it over every night, struggling to imagine how she could actually marry him. When he'd first proposed, only one thing had been on her mind: her career. She'd worked painfully hard to reach the level she'd attained, and marriage wouldn't exactly be conducive to a modeling career's growth.
But her need for revenge, her hunger for it, had been too strong to pass up the opportunity. She'd known that being with him would give her the leverage she needed to crush her father. Now, though, Eliott had told her he'd help her get her revenge whether or not she married him, so she wouldn't have to sacrifice the life she'd built at all. So why did her heart pound so violently whenever she imagined turning his proposal down? She was genuinely confused, struggling to make sense of her own feelings.
