His Ruthless Little Game

She settled on the heir to Jinzhou as her way out of it. She would put herself in front of him and draw him in a step at a time, using herself as the bait. She had grown up in a town where it rained most of the year, in a wooden house on the old estate. Her grandfather had left everything to her, and her relatives shut her in there over it and left her to rot. She played mad to get through the days, which was the one thing that kept them from finishing what they had started. Getting clear of that house meant getting at them, and the Jinzhou heir was the leverage for it. He let himself be drawn in, and then began giving her whatever she asked for, more of it than the plan had any room for.