CHAPTER 901. RULE #1. A Smart Girl.

"Alright, alright!" Leon exclaimed, because if he was honest, he didn’t have much time to start interviewing candidates, and Mariel Keller had almost everything he was looking for in a wife—at least the most important things. "If you can help me with this, I’ll be in your debt for life… though you’re already a millionaire, so I’m not really sure how I’d pay you back."

"I didn’t know friends had to charge each other," Mariel smiled at him with a sweetness that would be the worst punishment for the Count of Rosthchild—though he didn’t know it yet. "But I’ll think of something."

Leon wasn’t sure if he was sighing out of relief or nerves. He needed a marriage that looked real to his family in order to secure the title. He had discussed it with Dandara because he trusted her straightforward nature and carefree attitude… but Mariel? The girl seemed like a porcelain doll—fragile and delicate. Yet here she was, standing in front of him with an oddly determi