To Keep You Alive

"If you want me to refuse, you'd better take back what you said. Think it over." Killian looked at Cordelia.

Cordelia closed her eyes tiredly, resting on Killian's shoulder. "I've thought it through, eventually, we have to get married...to leave an inheritance..."

Cordelia feared that if she died, her inheritance would be taken by Orson, and she would leave nothing behind, forgotten by everyone.