Chapter 40 - Packing with Sheila

IRIS

She spent the day in the store with a messy head. So much stuff was running inside her mind, and one of the biggest issues that took up her thought was about her accepting the marriage proposal from Alex last night.

Maybe she was still shaken up about the last major event, which was the kidnapping by Alexander's father.

Call her foolish, but she thought everything that Alex had offered to her last night made sense.

Why would she suffer between the father and son war and the feud between the two conglomerate families - The Browning and The Ruthford family. She was a total stranger that coincidentally stumbled upon their orbit and had been pulled into this chaos ever since. But now she bore the consequences because Alexander Roman Browning laid his eyes on her that night.

Her day came as a distraction. She was working on autopilot. She smiled when the customers came and let her muscle memories handle her baking process from start to finish. She even miscalculated the change for tw