The Marriage Expedient

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e was a very good listener. He never

your losses but this is business, and once you make the wrong decisions, you

uati

to where I am now. Sacrifices. Do not forget that. What yo

do you

heir investors, sell off the company and what valuable

ut I am not most men, Mr. Desmond. And

sure you can revive the compan

doing. Taking a fork in genre was what got me into this mes

interlocked his fingers. "I will help you get back your

fty percent of the profits after the investors had be

ghter to be my w

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you help me on the condition that m

," he said,

h should be her own decision, not a condition she woul

jail until you both can pay them off? I do not wish this for you, Mr. Austin, seeing that I have been in such situations myself and know h

s repeating itself. Back to the time I made the sole decision to fork

ermit me to speak with my daughter f

be a positive one, Mr.

sion. It was good that I didn't eat anything. I wouldn't have ha

I tell Roshni? How could I tell her mother that for us to survive, her daug

g go father?" asked

hide the sad look on

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go in,

ng room, where we ate our meal

a way to sav

and a smile replaced it. "That is good

help me asked for s

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cause it isn't I who

n, father? What

s agreed to help me on the conditi