Eleanor Bishop looked up at Archie Lockwood, stunned into silence.
Archie Lockwood massaged her leg as he said in a deep voice, "Don't even think about refusing me. You know what the consequences are if you do!"
"I... Why are you doing this to me?" She didn't understand what he meant by all this...
'Is this to punish me? Or to humiliate me and laugh at my expense? Or is he just pitying me because of my leg injury?'
"Eleanor Bishop, if you don't want to spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair, then you'll do as I say. Besides, you should know better than anyone that you're much better off with me than with that mayor father of yours." He had enough time and money to help her...
She wouldn't have to do anything but obediently listen to him and stay by his side.
Just as Eleanor Bishop was about to retort and defend her father, she heard Shirley Lockwood's voice from the doorway. "Dad, I brought the doctor!"
