I stood up and the deeply shaken sight that Deshavi now was, glanced up at me forlornly, "Where are you going?"
I held the paper up, "To hide this where not even you could find it, let alone steal it."
I unhooked a plaid coat from off the door hook and shrugged into it. Folding the paper neatly I stated with emphasis. "Remember Deshavi, no babies until well after the wedding night."
She truly looked pathetic now, as she sat there trapped by the very document she had just signed. It always paid to consider all the angles thoroughly before one signed something important. She had been too focused on the money to consider all the angles that could make the agreement binding.
I read the emotions of alarm that suddenly coursed across her face, as the meaning of my words became real to her. In order to snare Trent she'd have to do it without her feminine bedroom wiles and she had a limited window of opportunity in which to work in.
"Daylight is wasting, and Deshavi I think you know that birth control is not an option on the table with which to work around this obstacle you're faced with in order to gain the prize."
She nodded knowing exactly what I had meant by the statement of no babies or she forfeited everything.
I closed the door behind me triumphantly. She still had a few things to learn before she outfoxed me. This deal might cost me my fortune, but it was a small price to pay for a settled and well trapped granddaughter.
Deshavi sat there at the table staring at the closed door. What had she done?
She'd made a mistake, that's what! She'd been suckered by a one and a three and a bunch of zeros. To complete it all she was locked into a commitment that she wanted no part of, but that she had to participate in, if she wanted the money. Sure, Trent was a hunk in every imaginable way, but he was dangerous to!
He made her nervous and she'd seen enough to know that he wasn't going to be as easy to manipulate as others had been. Her grandfather truly had gotten the best of her this time. Thirteen and a half million!
She'd never thought it was that much. Was it worth being Trent's woman and bearing his children though? He'd have a say over the money to, no doubt, unless she could get grandfather to give it to her under the table. He'd probably have to do that anyway, because if Trent found out what she was up to he wouldn't be happy. He might even get mad enough to walk away!