Chapter 5

"To pick up my fiancée." Alexander's voice was crisp, carrying clearly to everyone present.

With just one sentence, the color completely drained from Sebastian's face.

"That's impossible," he blurted out. "The Sterling patriarch is in his sixties."

"Who told you," Alexander said, his gaze pinning Sebastian in place, "that the head of the family was the only Sterling?"

Sebastian froze, his mind entirely blank.

Diane rushed forward in a panic.

"Mr. Sterling? You're here specifically for Nora? But we were told this was an end-of-life companionship arrangement."

"End of life?" Alexander shifted his cold gaze to Diane. "Who exactly fed…