Chapter 44

• Rosalina's POV
• The phone screen lights up with a name I had hoped to see less of this week. It is Yolanda, my former almost-mother-in-law. She calls with an explicit invitation to a formal family dinner at the Harrisford ancestral residence scheduled for the very next evening.
• However, my professional board is already set. I already have a crucial business dinner locked in with the upper management of the Harrisford Group itself, a high-stakes meeting that could double my income and guarantee my grandmother’s safety. I decline her invitation without a single shred of hesitation, keeping my tone perfectly polite but completely unyielding.