Avenging angel

Terese is devoted to her stepfather, so the news that he is seriously ill hits her hard. When Manuel Delgado, a commanding figure, threatens to take legal action against him for fraud, she is willing to go to great lengths to protect the older man from more trouble. His condition for dropping the matter is that she become his wife.

Terese is stunned that Manuel expects a real marriage rather than a arrangement on paper. She struggles to see how she could agree to such terms, and she cannot understand why a man who could have his pick of many eager women would insist on her.