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CHAPTER 30

Author: Penny
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Alex's POV

The shrill ringing of my phone jolted me awake. Sunlight barely filtered through the curtains as I fumbled for the device, my heart already pounding before I even saw Sally's name flashing on the screen. Four-thirty in the morning—never a good sign.

"Alex, turn on CNBC. Now." Her voice was razor-sharp, the kind of tone that meant disaster. Not the usual crisis we could manage with a carefully worded press release or strategic silence. This was something else.

I grabbed the remote, my fingers numb with sleep and dread. The screen flickered to life, and there it was—my face, a decade younger, splashed across the news ticker:

"LANE INTERNATIONAL CEO ALEXANDRA LANE LINKED TO BILLIONAIRE MICHAEL COLEMAN IN SHOCKING SECRET PAST."

A cold wave crashed over me. The headline was bad enough, but the photo beneath it—our photo—was worse. Michael's arm draped possessively around my waist at some forgotten charity gala, my smile bright but naive. The Guggenheim benefit, 2013. Back when I
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