LOGINAfter the socialite heiress gets dumped by a poor student named Andrew Stephens, she goes completely mute. Her mother, Nora Booker, announces that whoever gets her daughter to speak again will be given a million dollars. I make my way through all the men trying to get through to her and say, "Wasn't it just last night that you were calling me 'Daddy' in bed?" "That didn't happen!" Alicia Ellison blurts out. Nora wires me a million dollars on the spot. Over the moon, I follow Alicia around every day, teasing her while making a killing. She can't talk back and can't hit me, so out of frustration, she shuts me up with her own mouth. Overnight, I go from the heiress' personal companion to the heiress' official boyfriend. Every time I crack a dirty joke, she makes sure to get back at me until I don't have the nerve to say it again. Right before our wedding, her first love comes back after life gives him a serious beating. That night, Alicia doesn't come home. Grabbing the remaining half box of condoms and the savings I've accumulated over the past ten years, I walk out of our home. After delivering the condoms to them, I use my savings to buy myself a plane ticket back home.
View MoreIf Alicia had only seen through Felix sooner, then on the day he broke off his engagement, she would have married him without hesitation and never let him leave her again.No… She should never have gotten involved with Andrew while Felix was still her boyfriend in the first place. But it was already too late now.…Felix's POVMy insider intel on the Duroville plot came from my fiancee—actually, my former fiancee. I called off the engagement because of Alicia.I offered her family a huge sum of money as compensation, but they returned it.I figured they were furious. And to be fair, I knew I was in the wrong.After my company went public, I spent a fortune at an auction house to buy an original masterpiece from a renowned artist as an apology.My former fiancee's parents didn't really blame me. The engagement had been something both sides entered willingly, after all.The person who was truly angry was that young woman with mutism, the one I'd once teased into speaking up se
Was Alicia unable to let Felix go because she still loved him? Or was it because she simply couldn't stand being the one who lost, thanks to her insatiable need to come out on top?She pulled into her driveway and slumped over the steering wheel, her breathing shaky. Maybe she really did love Felix.But she'd always believed money was the only thing keeping the two of them connected—that as long as she had money, Felix would always stay by her side.Had she really let Felix go when she got engaged to Andrew?Let him go? What was there to let go of? How could she possibly let go? In her eyes, he'd simply always been nothing but a shameless nobody.She had believed that he was so shameless that even if she got married, he'd still willingly become her lover as long as she paid him enough.And yet, she had never looked past Felix's sycophantic smile to see the burning ambition in his eyes. Andrew was acting up again. Once again, he complained that she'd bought him all those preci
"Nora, I've come to return the money," I said.Nora froze on the spot. Alicia, who was sitting off to the side, lifted her head too.I turned to look at Alicia. "I'm here to return everything Ms. Ellison gave me while we were together."I pulled out a ledger. Starting from ten years ago, I'd recorded every gift Alicia had given me after kissing me, right down to what each one would be worth today after adjusting for inflation.It had originally started out as a young man's diary. But the further along it went, the more formal and impersonal it became.There were no longer any excited descriptions about how happy I'd been to receive each gift—just cold, emotionless records of the date, the item, the quantity, its market value, and what that value amounted to today.The final entry was the piece of land she'd given me. The money Nora paid me over the years was wages I'd earned, so I hadn't included it."The total comes to a billion dollars. I've added another 20% as a thank-you to
Besides, how could Alicia ever really marry me? Andrew, on the other hand, was smart.Whenever he wanted money, he always held his ground and acted like he absolutely refused to take it.Either way, Alicia was always going to give her boyfriend money. As long as he lived in the huge mansion she gave him while stubbornly insisting he wasn't a sugar baby, Alicia would just think he was some principled guy who'd managed to stay above it all.All those priceless accessories were things Alicia had forced on him. He had nothing to do with any of it.And her suddenly installing him as my department head? That was just her showing her boyfriend some outrageous preferential treatment. It wasn't like he had actually asked for it.But I was different. I couldn't hide the fact that I was completely driven by money. I was terrified that if I missed the opportunity, I'd never get another one. So, I was never going to be the kind of man Alicia truly liked.Still, on the day of their engagem












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