As Rosalie treated Manuel’s injured shoulder, he looked at her through the soot.

“I married you to save my family,” he admitted. “But I no longer care about the company if saving it means betraying you.”

“My father will offer everything back.”

“Then I’ll refuse him.”

“Why?”

“Because I search for your face whenever you enter a room. Because I admire your courage and intelligence. And because tonight, the woman everyone called fragile saved my life.”

Rosalie kissed him first.

PART 3: THE TRUTH IN COURT

Investigators confirmed the fire was deliberate.

Phone records connected Emmett’s lawyer, Wesley Turner, to the guard who disappeared shortly after the blaze.

Emmett denied everything and approached Manuel with another offer.

He promised to clear every Nelson debt, restore his father’s reputation, and pay his sister’s university fees—if Manuel signed a statement declaring Rosalie unstable and responsible for the fire.