Chapter 14 - I Asked Emma to Marry Me Again in the Same Mansion Where My Family Had Humiliated Her—But This Time She Walked Through the Door as Its OwnerSix months later, everything had changed.
Emma's hands had healed.
Her confidence returned.
She became president of our foundation.
She also owned the majority of the legitimate Kane businesses.
Not because I gave them to her.
Because my father had always intended them to belong to her.
One evening, I brought her to the mansion.
The same kitchen.
The same marble floors.
The same dining room.
But everything was different.
The servants were gone.
The guards were gone.
The criminal portraits were removed.
The mansion had become our home again.
I led Emma into the ballroom.
Candles surrounded the room.
Photographs of us filled the walls.
Our first date.
Our wedding.
Our restaurant.
Our travels.
Our life.
I knelt.
Emma covered her mouth.
"I know I already married you."
She laughed through tears.
"But I spent five years believing I wasn't worthy of you."
I opened the velvet box.
"I was wrong too."
She cried.
"I should have come home sooner."
I took her hand.
"I can't change the past."
"But I can promise you the future."
I held out the ring.
"Emma, will you marry me again?"
She smiled.
"Yes."
The doors opened.
My mother stood there.
Jennifer beside her.
Michael.
Even some former employees.
Emma looked surprised.
I smiled.
"They wanted to see you become the woman you always were."
Emma shook her head.
"I was always her."
"Exactly."
She kissed me.
The mansion erupted in applause.
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For the first time, it wasn't a place of fear.
It was a home.
