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Chapter 8

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But when she opened her closet, reality mocked her. Thrift store blouses. Jeans with worn knees. One semi-nice dress that had already done overtime at the gala.

A knock on her door made her jump.

She wrapped her robe tighter, heart hammering, and peered through the peephole.

A woman stood there, elegant, older, holding garment bags and a professional makeup case. Behind her, two more assistants with shoe boxes and accessories.

Maeve opened the door slowly. "Um. Wrong apartment?"

The woman's smile was practiced, warm but not quite reaching her eyes. "Maeve Wells? Mr. Langston sent us. We're here to prepare you for the final round." Her gaze swept over Maeve's cramped living room without judgment, too professional for that. "May we come in?"

This was a test, Maeve realized. Carter, flexing his power. Showing her that he could reach into her private space, transform her, control even this.

She should slam the door. Tell him to go to hell.

Instead, she stepped aside.

Because that fifty mi
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    Sterling opened the folder, scanned the documents. Bank records, email trails, video evidence. His eyes widened."This is... if this is real, this is criminal conspiracy at the highest level.""It's real. And when it comes out, it won't just destroy Carter's reputation. It will destroy Langston Appliances. The pension fund theft means thousands of employees lose their retirement savings. The company faces massive lawsuits. Stock value goes to zero. Complete corporate collapse.""Then why are you showing this to me? What do you get out of corporate collapse?"Jade's smile widened. "Because I don't want corporate collapse. I want corporate acquisition. Specifically, I want you to help me acquire Langston Appliances' assets at pennies on the dollar when the company declares bankruptcy."Sterling studied her carefully. "You want me to help you buy the company your family lost.""I want poetic justice. My father's company was stolen by the Langstons. I'm going to steal theirs in return. Bu

  • MY WAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE'S HEART    Chapter 33

    He looked at Maeve, then at Cameron's arm around her shoulders. Something flickered in his expression—pain, resignation, something too complex to name."Ms. Wells," Detective Chen said. "I'm glad you're here. I have some questions about your relationship with Mr. Cameron Langston.""There is no relationship," Maeve said immediately. "Those photos are fake. Jade Kensington fabricated them.""Can you prove that?"Maeve opened her mouth, closed it. How did you prove a negative? How did you prove something didn't happen?"Detective," Carter said quietly. "Maeve and Cameron kissed once, three days ago. I have security footage that shows the exact date and time. None of the photos Jade released match that timestamp or location. They're fabrications."Chen raised an eyebrow. "You have security footage of your fiancée kissing your cousin?""I have security footage of everything. It's how I controlled her." Carter's voice was hollow. "You can have all of it. Every camera angle, every recording

  • MY WAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE'S HEART    Chapter 32

    What are you asking me to do?""I'm asking you to talk to him before Detective Chen builds her case. I'm asking you to find out what he's really trying to accomplish with this confession." Cameron reached across the table, took her hand. "And I'm asking you to consider that maybe Carter isn't trying to punish himself. Maybe he's trying to protect you.""Protect me from what?""From Jade. She doesn't just want revenge on Carter. She wants revenge on everyone who made her family's fall possible. That includes you now. By making you the face of Carter's moral bankruptcy, she's painting a target on your back."Maeve pulled her hand away, her heart racing. "Cameron, you're scaring me.""Good. You should be scared. Jade Kensington is brilliant, ruthless, and patient. This contract leak is just the opening move. She has something bigger planned.""How do you know?"Cameron's expression went dark. "Because three years ago, after the takeover, she told me exactly what she'd do if she ever got

  • MY WAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE'S HEART    Chapter 31

    Against yourself.""Against myself, against Jade, against the board member who took the bribe. Clean sweep." Carter leaned back. "I'm done running. Whatever happens next, I want it to be the truth."Chen opened the folder, scanned the contents. Her expression remained neutral, but Carter could see the prosecutor's gleam in her eyes. This was career-making evidence."I'll need to verify all of this. And Mr. Langston, you understand that what you're giving me will likely result in criminal charges against you? Prison time?""I understand.""Then I'm placing you under advisement not to leave the city. We'll be in touch." She gathered her materials, stood. At the door, she paused. "For what it's worth, most men in your position would lawyer up and deny everything. The fact that you're not tells me something.""That I'm an idiot?""That you're trying to become someone better than you've been." She left, taking Carter's confession and his future with her.Carter sat in the empty office, fee

  • MY WAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE'S HEART    Chapter 30

    Every single day. Because the price of my family's survival has been my own dignity, my freedom, my sense of self. Carter controls what I wear, where I go, who I talk to. He monitors my phone, my computer, my every move. The penthouse I live in is beautiful, but it's still a cage."Her mother was crying now. Tommy looked stricken. But Maeve couldn't stop."But here's what I don't regret: I don't regret saving my mother's life. I don't regret giving my brother a future. I don't regret keeping my aunt's dreams alive. If that makes me a gold-digger, so be it. I chose my family over my pride, and I'd do it again.""What about Cameron Langston?" A reporter in the third row stood. "There are photos of you two together. Is there a relationship?"Maeve's throat tightened. "Cameron has been kind to me. In a situation where everyone else treats me like an object, he treated me like a person. Did I develop feelings for him? Yes. Did I act on them inappropriately while engaged to his cousin? Also

  • MY WAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE'S HEART    Chapter 29

    Maeve found him on the roof of the building, standing at the edge, looking out over the city. The wind whipped his hair, and for once, he looked less like a CEO and more like a man drowning."You should have let me fail," she said, approaching carefully. "You should have sided with Sterling and saved your position.""And let people die?" Carter didn't turn around. "That's what you think of me? That I'd choose power over basic human decency?""I think you'd choose survival. It's what you always do.""Apparently not always." He finally looked at her, and his eyes were hollow. "I just destroyed my company defending your recommendation. Sterling will have the votes in a week. I'll be removed as CEO, probably banned from the board entirely. Everything my grandfather built, gone. Because I trusted you."The accusation stung precisely because it was unfair."You didn't trust me. You trusted the engineering. The data doesn't lie, Carter.""No. But people do." He moved closer, his intensity pa

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