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Chapter 161 - Chapter 161: The Agreement Between Us

~Evric's POV~

The way he said it made my blood boil. "As what?" I shot back. "As some dirty secret? A past night? A side affair I keep hidden like shame?"

My father didn't blink. His face remained carved from stone. "The option is simple."

I gripped my fists. Simple? The word rang in my head like an insult.

"Simple how, Father?" I shot back, my voice cracking with anger. "Tell me, how is this option simple to you? You're advising me to marry someone I do not love, to chain myself to a lie, and in the process treat the one person I do love as if he means nothing. How is that simple?"

Rogan leaned back in his chair, his gaze steady, his tone heavy with authority. "Evric, I'm doing everything for you. I don't want life to become difficult for you. Look around every man in your line of business, leader, and heir; they all have wives. That is the image the world respects. Tell me, how will you stand before them and present a man as your partner?"

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