Chapter 10 Chains And Chessboards

• Luca's fingers dashed across the keys, his office lit by the soft intensity of night and tension. Legal documents spread across his desk, shredded contracts, signature pages, computer, and hard drives, but all of them refused to yield an easy exit.
• That confounded contract.
• His nineteen-year-old self had been selfish and spoiled. That drunken signature now was a thing that chained him to a woman he didn't want to marry. Jessie had always been the wildcard piece, a fragile doll he'd once been able to manipulate. But now… she was turning the game around.