Sydney Sullivan picked up the coffee cup, rubbed it with her fingers, and a fleeting look of bewilderment crossed her noble and proud face. She paused for half a second before slowly speaking, "Adam's father and I didn't get together because of love; it was because of a business marriage. At that time, I had just returned from studying abroad, and there was a major project that needed cooperation between the two families. The funds involved in the project were enormous, almost the entire bottom line of both companies. If successful, both companies would rise to a new level. If it failed, both would be utterly defeated!
With such a large project, neither family trusted the other, so the story predictably turned into a family alliance through marriage. By relying on marriage, making the other family's child our in-laws, both families were closely tied together. I was the only daughter of the Sullivan Family, and the Sinclair Family, Adam's father, was chosen to become my husband.
