My Fiancée Betrayed Me, Not Knowing I’m the Heir

After coming back from a three-year study trip abroad, my fiancée invited me to join her company.

But only a few days after I started, her assistant showed up with a compensation agreement and told me to sign it.

I frowned. “What’s this supposed to mean?”

The assistant gave me an impatient look. “Shouldn’t you take responsibility for the mess you caused?”

Thinking he must’ve confused me with someone else, I calmly explained, “I just got here. I haven’t even started working on any project. How could I have caused trouble already?”

When I didn’t sign, he slammed the papers onto the table, crossed his arms, and stared at me with a smug face.

“When I tell you to sign, you sign! Why are you making things difficult?”

Not wanting to waste time arguing, I called my fiancée directly. To my surprise, she answered in an annoyed tone.

“Reid caused some trouble a couple of days ago. Just take the blame for him.”

“I’m warning you, don’t make things worse. He’s the chairman’s son. If you don’t deal with this properly, both of us will be kicked out!”

When I heard that, I lifted my eyes to look at the proud man standing in front of me.

How funny, since when did my mother have such a son?

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I looked down at the compensation agreement. It claimed that because I had leaked core project data, the company had suffered huge losses, and I was willing to take full responsibility.

What an impressive accusation.

When I had just returned from abroad, Dahlia Larson had warmly invited me to join her company.

With our wedding coming up, I took it as a chance to see her true character, so I agreed.

I never expected that she only wanted me there to take the blame for Reid Payne.

On the other end of the call, Dahlia must have noticed how harsh she sounded, because her voice softened.

“Weston, I’m doing this for our future. Reid is the chairman’s son; his record can’t have any problems. But you’re different. You’re new here. It’s only natural for you to bear a little loss.”

I interrupted her. “Dahlia, I suggest you think carefully before deciding this.”

Before she could reply, I ended the call.

Just then, Reid suddenly poured a cup of ice water over my head, and the freezing liquid ran through my hair and down my back, making me shiver.

He looked at me with pure contempt. “You, a graduate from some lousy foreign university, if it weren’t for Dahlia, you’d still be picking trash off the street!”

“Now the company asks you to make a small sacrifice, and you start dragging your feet? I’m telling you, if you don’t sign today, once the partners start asking questions and my mom finds out, no one will be able to save you!”

No one had ever spoken to me like that before. And somehow, my MBA from Stanford had turned into a lousy degree in his mouth.

Anger surged through me. I grabbed the cup of hot coffee beside me and, without thinking twice, threw it straight at Reid’s face.

“Ah!” Reid screamed, clutching his face in pain.

The office fell into chaos as everyone turned to stare at me. Whispers spread through the room.

“He’s President Larson’s fiancé who just came back from abroad? He’s got guts!”

“Offending Young Master Reid the moment he arrives, he’s out of his mind.”

“It’s over for him. He’s finished for sure.”

If I hadn’t known that my parents had always been close and had never spent more than a day apart, I might have actually suspected that Reid was my mother’s illegitimate son.

Until now, I hadn’t really taken a good look at him, but when I did, there was something strangely familiar about his face.

Reid wiped the coffee from his face with tissues, his hands shaking with anger.

“Weston Jensen, are you crazy?! Do you even know what you just did?!”