Losing You, My Fortune

The Payne family owed the Jones family a life debt, and the debt was settled with company shares and a contract marriage between Jacey Jones and York Payne. York agreed to it because the marriage was tied to his inheritance. He was cold to Jacey from the start and kept favouring Vivian, the woman he had loved before. Jacey set a term of one year, with the shares to be returned if they divorced. She became pregnant and lost the baby. That ended it for her, and she left. Her leaving froze the inheritance, because the shares were now evenly split. York pushed Vivian forward to win a partnership with the Aishe Group, and Vivian's designs turned out to be copied from Jacey's older work. Aishe, run by York's brother Cain, favoured Jacey's designs instead. Cain had loved her before any of this. York found out about Vivian and Cain, lost his position, and only then admitted what he felt for Jacey.