They Threw Me Out-So He Carried Me Home

Synopsis

The crystal chandelier's glare stabbed at my eyes. Richard Nolan's hand gripped my shoulder like steel, forcing me to bend over in front of a gray-haired old man whose eyes were dull and cloudy. "Mr. Grant, this is my daughter, Claire Nolan. She just turned twenty and is very well-behaved," Richard said. My stomach twisted, and icy chills crept through my veins. I caught Sophia Nolan's smug laugh and my adoptive mother's impatient push. "Claire, aren't you going to greet Mr. Grant? You're lucky he's taken a liking to you." Lucky? A man old enough to be my grandfather was leering at me, scanning me from head to toe and practically stripping me with his eyes. I was shaking all over. Just as I was being shoved toward that fat, greasy hand, a cool, magnetic voice cut through the air like ice tossed into boiling oil, instantly silencing the entire banquet hall. "Mr. Nolan, did you even ask for my permission before touching someone under my protection?"