Sage POV
The mood in the office was tense. Chase looked furious but Sapphire looked smug. I felt Wilson grip my hand, lightly stroking gentle circles on it in an attempt to soothe me. Sapphire's smile grew chilly after Chase's question, but she merely tapped her fingernails on the desk. "Desperate?" she snorted "hardly, but I am a realist. I happen to know that you need to marry in order to get your hands on the company and I want to get married into a family name with prestige and power. Your name," she told Chase as he clenched his jaw and I glanced away, feeling highly embarrassed "is such that nobody would dare try to rival or contest me. The media thinks we are pretty much engaged already" she purred, thrusting her breasts out while Chase looked away "so why not just do the inevitabl
