When The Unwanted Genius Breaks The Contract

e glass coffee table, the sharp sound echoing throug

agement

ng down at his fiancée, Adelaide Booth,

bound by a longstanding marriage agreement between the Burks and Booth

nd brought her back to New York less than a month ago, Dwayne had been for

dn't even bother looking up, her long fin

the papers a

le speech to put her in her place, and her

h, the adopted daughter raised by the family as a pampered Upper East S

ht past Adelaide, catching Dwayne's tailored

" Brittanie said, her voice trembling with fragile

last month, Dwayne and I were already in love. When we found out the marriage agreemen

single tear roll down her cheek as she

me so much that he couldn't bear to marry

ily's firm on Wall Street. He needs a wife who

a soul in New York. Dwayne isn't breaking the engagement to humiliate you-

ly. He wrapped his arm tightly around Brittanie's waist,

ed. "She's gentle, educated, and a hundred times the woman you'll ever be. Brittanie i

cked her phone and looked up, her dark gaze co

ice smooth and unhurried. "Honestly, you two belong in the same d

spilled over her lashes, and her shoulders sh

I was only trying to smooth things

aide's biological mother and the matriarch of the house, stormed into the living

ster again?" Eleanor snapped, her s

ont of Brittanie, glaring at her own flesh a

from that gutter was a mis

y proud in every social circle in Manhattan, while you've brought nothing to this house but hostility and embar

biological mother wit

s. Booth, you can donate them to

ttled red as she pointed a trembli

r mother like that! Brittanie has ten times the grace an

yourself sick," Brittanie cried out,

anor so her body blocked their direct line of sight. Reaching out both hands,

hing across her face, hidden from the others. "I know you're jealous that Mom an

avoid the touch, her fingers nev

twisted her high heel and threw her weight backward, crashing heavily

as only trying to help you-

s knees on the rug and pulled Brittanie into his arms,

laide? How dare you lay a han

Brittanie's ankle with frantic care before whippin

u're complet

her chest, looking down at the

this living room," Adelaide said flatly. "Do you need me to pull the foota

re Dwayne could look up toward the ceiling corners, she buri

as. If word gets out that Addie pushed me, she'll be ruined

even more for the girl, any thought of checking the footage instantly forgo

l you are! Apologize to Brittanie and Dwayne right now, or I'm

a, her tall, slender frame commanded the

o you really think I care about a few c

their eyes met, making her rage burn

et out of my house right now and don't ta

ayne sneered with

ltering her, a penniless high school dropout like her

r eyes, her voice weak and trembling,

esn't have any skills or friends here. Sh

uckles, smoothing down the cuf

elaide said. "Watching your bad

shed forward to block the bottom step, squ

ily! You're not going upstairs to pack a single thing until you swa

looked down at Eleanor, her eye

ov

ed the crushing authority of someone used to

eyes, she stumbled half a step back on pure instinct, clearing the way. B

them another glance, Adelaide

back. "Dwayne, make sure the legal paperwork end

ly. He stood up from the r

those papers are signed, don't come crawlin

loor landing, glancing back ove

soon enough who was actua

ilence in the wake of her departure. Several seconds passed b

on the streets and see how long she las

Dwayne's chest, hiding a triumph

engagement is