“You violated the terms of the contract, Pyotr Viktorovich. This is unacceptable.”
“What are you talking about, Stas, everything has been done. Now the whole plant is yours.”
“The plant—yes. But you yourself set the condition: to marry your daughter. And as I understand it, Alice is engaged, and you’re slipping me someone I don’t even understand.”
“We didn’t agree this way.”
“Asha is also my daughter. In which clause did you read that you must marry Alice? Everything is fair, Stas. And you’ve already signed.”
“Business has its own rules. Love and desire aren’t written into them. I made a contract beneficial for me, but I had to marry the partner’s daughter. But instead of a bright socialite, you gave me her sister—still a very young girl. So young, timid, wild. Earlier women like that never interested me. Never...”