Chapter 1: Terms and Conditions
The hotel's electricity dies with thirty wedding cakes in the ovens. You keep whisking by your phone's light. Tomorrow's deposits are the only money left for payroll. In the doorway stands Dominic Cole, holding the marriage clause your grandmother's lawyer read this morning. Before you throw that whisk: I have a proposal. Start with the breaker box. He takes off his expensive jacket and does. When the lights return, Priya hands you an envelope found beneath the mixer. Your grandmother's handwriting: Lena, don't sign anything until you've read page forty-seven. Dominic recognizes the seal. For the first time since you met him, he looks frightened.
What happens next? Open the envelope with Priya, asking Dominic to wait · Ask Dominic what he knows before opening it · Hear his offer, with Priya taking notes