Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 837

His predatory gaze missed nothing, easily catching the flicker of raw greed she accidentally let slip.

Only one thought echoed in his mind: Thank god he had locked down The Blake Pre-Nuptial Agreement.

With that ironclad legal defense in place, he had absolute peace of mind regarding this marriage.

And because of that, he simply didn't care.

Consequently, he didn't bother to soften his words.

"Since you brought up Lillian, let me make a few things clear.

If you want to mirror her arrangement, do you happen to remember exactly how much her family provided as a dowry?

Aside from her dowry, you're forgetting one very crucial detail. That one billion-dollar settlement was paid entirely by my parents."

Sebastian was highly strategic. He simultaneously reminded Bella of her lack of a dowry while emphasizing that the billion dollars came from Old Mr. Blake, not him.

Bella deflated instantly, like a punctured tire.

A dowry. The meager assets she could scrape together were downright embarrassing.

As for Old Mr. Blake and his wife, she had originally planned to use Debbie Harris to manipulate them. But Debbie had proven to be entirely useless; she was dragging her feet and hadn't even managed to arrange a face-to-face meeting with the old man yet.

But the worst part was that even after she had explicitly asked, Sebastian had absolutely no intention of advocating for her.

If Sebastian had just pushed for it, surely his parents would have provided *some* kind of settlement just to save face for him, right?

But his tone made it undeniably clear: she was getting nothing.

Bella gritted her teeth. She couldn't argue about the dowry because she knew she brought nothing to the table. She had zero leverage.

There were far too many disadvantages stacked against her in this marriage.

However, the perks of being married to Sebastian Blake were astronomical.

She was now the official Mrs. Blake, and that title alone was enough to keep her pushing forward.

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