Chapter 30 · Contract Marriage Paper

"Sign here, Lila." Bianca slid the paper across the glass table so fast it hit my knuckles. "Right under my name."

I looked down. Not a witness form. A marriage contract. Bianca Velasco and Jae Min, typed in bold, dated for next week.

"I'm not signing anything," I said. "I'm not even supposed to be in this room."

"You're in this room," Corazon said from the head of the table, not looking up from her tablet, "because you're the only staff member who was standing in that hallway when Mr. Min made his calls. We need a witness who saw nothing unusual. That's all this is."

"Nothing unusual." I laughed, and it came out uglier than I meant. "You want me to say I heard him talking about golf."

Jae didn't move from the window. Arms crossed, jaw tight, watching me like he was waiting to see which way I'd fall.

"Lila." Bianca's voice dropped sweet, the kind of sweet that means a knife's coming. "Your sister's contract renews in Dubai next month.