Seamus dialed Maverick again: "We've made our move, but it didn't work out."

His face was ashen, and though he hated to admit it, he'd been intimidated by that wretched girl's threats!

Even now, he felt a growing reluctance to tangle with her again.

Maverick, with a smug caress of the ring on his finger, seemed quite cheerful: "Then our marriage affair will just have to be put on hold."

"I'm more than willing to have Kelly join the family, but doesn't that require your cooperation as well?"

"I'll throw in an additional five percent of the Hemsworth Group's shares; your battles, I'd best not get entangled in."

Seamus gritted...