Chapter 78

After their fight, Marcus took Daniella towards the greenhouse, a special place to calm down her raging desire to scratch his eyes. “Can you trust me to deal with Alicia?” He asked before they sat down on a bench that was customized to be placed near her workstation for flower arrangement.

“To be honest, I’m not sure if I can trust you with it. Maybe you should just let me handle your affair,” she offered.

Just the thought of Daniella confronting or challenging Alicia made him shiver. “Or maybe we should set a date for our wedding to stop Alicia from taking me away from you,” he counteroffered.

“Do you think that a wedding ceremony can stop her? If I am in her shoes, no ceremony can stop me from claiming what belongs to me, and in one or another, she and I are so alike!” She responded.

Her response didn’t make him happy. When he asked her hand to marry him, although she said yes, there was no date yet, and he started to wonder what was stopping the woman from