The Heir

“Max, let’s go.” Victoria held him by the hand and tried to pull him out of the study.

“Wait,” he said and pulled his hand from his wife. “Let me hear him out. Go on, tell me, Franklin.”

“Let’s have a bet if your wife…” Franklin turned his gaze to Victoria and back to Maximillian. “Will succeed or not.”

“I guess you will bet that she wouldn’t.” He put his arm around Victoria’s shoulders and pulled her closer to him. “So, what’s the catch?”

“Whoever lost will kowtow and admit his mistakes.” Franklin sneered.

Maximillian lowered his gaze on his wife, who was looking at him intently at that moment.

“Deal,” he muttered.

“Great.” Franklin pocketed his hands on his jeans and walked away.

Victoria clenched her hands against the fabric of his shirt.

“Why did you do that, Max?”

He cupped her face and brushed his thumbs on her cheeks.

“It’s all right, love. I have nothing to lose. It does not even involve money—”

“I am not feeling good about this, Max.” She let out a long sigh as she put her hands down.

“Cheer up, Victoria. I believe in you. You can win this war and prove yourself to everyone. You have it in you. It’s just that they always take your chance away. But I promise you, it won’t happen again…” Maximillian planted a kiss on his wife’s forehead, then to the tip of her nose, before kissing her on the lips.

on this project…

her. “There is no way you will lose everything because I am here for

leaned her head on his chest. “If I ever lost my job, we would leave this town, find a new place and start all

you are finally free, we can focus on building our

Victoria smiled. “Of course.”

for dinner, or we should just have it

cooked something for dinner,” he

own before he could open the door

hands, they

his mother-in-law, was already standing by the foyer when they got inside the house. It seemed that she

cheek. “Max and I

“How’s the meeting?”

us to get

Laura looked at her

dares to take

is indeed risky for our company,

“And I volunteered.”

did not sound proud of

Grandma gave me

arms and shook her. “What’s gotten into you, huh? You will just put yourself in

wife away from her. Until now, he still could not imagine how Victoria managed to live her life under the pressure of her family. Laura seemed to not have any maternal affection for her child. For her, it seemed like Victoria was just a pawn. And he despised

with this, Max. This is between my daughter

I am her husband,” he said through gritted teeth. “I have the right to

face turned

think you should be asking yourself