Chapter 8. Good for Him

She turned around and looked up at his face with a sweet smile. “Cristofer, I’ll return your properties to you.”

“What?”

“Believe it or not, I’ve never wanted your properties, and I’m sorry about the death of your parents,” she explained. “Don’t worry, ‘cause I’ll give you whatever you want.”

He interrupted, “You won’t.”

“What if I will?”

“I want to marry Gretchen right now.”

She nodded. “You can fulfill your dream in seven days, no, six days to be exact.”

He continued, “What if I want to ruin the reputation of your family? I want you to kneel and kowtow in front of my parents’ gravestones, too.”

Silent for a second, she nodded. “Okay, I’ll kneel for them ‘cause they loved me so much, and their death had something to do with me.”

It did have something to do with her.

If she had not fallen for Cristofer and accepted deep affection from his parents, who deemed her as their future daughter-in-law, Gretchen would not have kille