Debt Repaid

Summary

The day the Vereen empire crumbled, everyone expected me to break off my engagement to Seraphina.

But as the downpour hammered the city, I was the one holding an umbrella over her, shielding her rain-soaked, broken figure as I guided her into my car.

“Here’s a hundred million,” I told her, my voice low and steady. “If you succeed, you come back and marry me. If you fail, I’ll come and marry you.”

Five years later, Seraphina Vereen returned to Veridia City, a titan of industry with three publicly traded companies at her back.