I Owe the Tyrant Four Little Heirs novel Chapter 195

Niamh struggled to clear her head. “Mr. Bragg, why are you asking me that? Don’t forget, I’m just your assistant. Besides, you already have a girlfriend.”

Just this morning he’d claimed he was interested in another girl in the neighborhood, and now he was confessing his feelings to her?

“Jareth,” she thought, “you look so respectable on the outside, and everyone says you’re not interested in women, but you’re a total scumbag.”

“If you agree to be with me,” Jareth said, “I’ll give everyone else up. I only want you.”

His sincerity was so convincing that Niamh almost believed him. But then she remembered the past few days, how he’d been getting all lovey-dovey with that woman, Yara, in the office. The memory snapped her back to reality.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Bragg, but I can’t,” she said, rejecting him flatly. She had been hurt once before and wouldn’t let it happen again. She wouldn’t make the same mistake twice; she wasn’t a complete idiot.

“Why not, Niamh?” Jareth demanded, his voice rising.

“We’re just not right for each other, Mr. Bragg,” she replied. “You should find someone else.”

“Niamh, if you’re worried I’ll leave you, how about this? We can go get married right now. Marry me, and I’ll give you a hundred million dollars and a mansion. What do you say?”

He was genuinely agitated. At this point, as long as Niamh agreed to be with him, he didn’t care what her motives were. As of yesterday, she had become the most important person in his life. No matter how much she rejected him or disliked him, he would do anything to make her his wife.

Niamh stared at him in disbelief. Was this his standard playbook when he hit on girls? It had to be. She wouldn’t fall for it. There was no such thing as a free lunch in this world.

“Of course,” he replied, again without a flicker of hesitation. That had been his plan all along.

Niamh rolled her eyes. “Jareth, are you crazy? Or do you think I am?”

“You don’t believe me?” he asked.

“Oh, I believe you. Why wouldn’t I?” she said, her tone dripping with sarcasm.

Yeah, right, he had billions in assets, and he was just going to hand them over? Did he think she was as gullible as her Aurelia?