Please Be Gentle With Me Mr Grant
Chapter 4 Wife-For-Hire, One Million
“You see how many suitors I have. It’s really troubled me, so I could use a wife to ward them off. If you agree, I’ll return the pendant. How’s that?”
Blanca didn’t think much of it. Just being rumored to be with her was enough, but now marriage? Wouldn’t she just get time bombs delivered to her door?
The key part was, as the head of the Empire Group, he could have taken any woman he liked, so why her?
There had to be something else going on. Blanca didn’t feel like Matthew had given a solid reason.
“Why does it have to be me?”
Matthew smiled faintly. “The way you don’t fear death is suitable for being a meat shield, and you don’t have any family background, which saved us a lot of trouble. Are you satisfied with that answer?”
“…”
Blanca didn’t feel like the first half of that statement was praising her, but that last half did make sense.
For someone like Matthew, even love and marriage was a complicated net of interests and profit.
Maybe it really was like how he’d put it, and that marrying a girl who had absolutely zero background would actually bring him the least trouble.
As for Blanca, there was also a huge benefit to marrying him…
“I can give you my life and be your
Matthew looked
“I want some money.”
up on treatment and come to Oakshire to look for her parents precisely because it was expensive and she didn’t have the money for it. She just wanted to see her birth parents
thing to do, of course, was to use his money for her treatment and extend her life as much as possible so she could buy more time
much. One million will do. It’s just pocket change
spoke like she was an expert salesman, but she’d forgotten that she was
and said right away. “It’s more than fair all right.
a check for one million and placed it before her along with
can we go get our
one-night-stand could have had such a reward, and that she could have gotten money for her
to Oakshire, she’d been prepared to
the certification done, I’ll hold a press conference and go public with our relationship, and you can step up officially to
happily around her neck, placed it into her clothes, felt for it,
about how she
off just like
man was handsome and rich, but it wasn’t the marriage she had in
that she probably wouldn’t live out half the year, forget romance. Having family was