Chapter 23

He wasn’t expecting Neal to come up with such a ridiculous business proposal. Of course, he had rejected the offer, but he still wanted that business deal. And he needed to get Neal to drop the marriage idea. That was the reason why he was at the party actually.

It should come as no surprise. Neal Patchett was getting old, and it shouldn’t be too surprising that he would want his only child to get married. Dash just didn’t understand why Neal would pick him. He had met Tess just once, and while she had the innocence of an eighteen-year-old, she must be twenty-six or twenty-seven, having completed her degree at university three years ago.

He remembered attending a formal dinner to celebrate. It was at that dinner that he had seen Tess, and he hadn’t really spoken to her, apart from the time he had offered his congratulations to her and they had talked for like one minute. And that was w