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Chapter 8

Author: Helen
Well over ten hours later, my plane touched down at a small airport in Montana.

I wheeled my luggage out of the terminal.

The September wind hit me in the face, carrying the smell of hay and dirt. In the distance, the snow-capped Rockies stretched beneath the sun, vast and silent.

I looked down at my Chanel jacket and my stiletto-heeled leather boots.

Everywhere I looked, there were pickup trucks, cowboy hats, and mud-caked boots. Next to all that, I had to admit I stuck out like a sore thumb.

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    No trace remained of the elegant, aristocratic financier Adrian used to be.His suit was wrinkled and filthy, and his eyes were sunken and bloodshot. He knelt in the mud without a shred of pride, clinging to my boots and wailing."Evelyn! I was wrong! I know that now, I really do!"Adrian tipped his head back to look up at me, desperation and regret written all over his face. "Please, save me! My family cut me off. I've got nothing left! It wasn't until I lost you that I realized that bitch Claire isn't worth a single hair on your head! You're the only woman who deserves to stand by my side!"I stood still and looked down at the man kneeling in the mud.The pain and despair in his eyes were genuine. I knew he truly regretted it. But all I felt was disgust and bitter irony."Adrian." I slowly pulled my foot free, my voice as cold as a blade. "You're not sorry because you finally see how much you hurt me. You're sorry because you lost the perfect tool, the one who ran around doing everyt

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    To save herself, Claire went all in and held nothing back.She posted hundreds of encrypted voice messages and chat logs from her phone straight to social media, every last one of them. In the messages, Adrian coached her on how to manipulate the Duke and get the passwords to the trust's secret funds from him!"Adrian Devaux is the real con artist here, and the most vicious one!" Claire sobbed into the camera, her face a mess of tears and snot. "He never loved Evelyn, and he never loved me either! We were just tools he used to get control of both families!"Back in Europe, Adrian saw the news and completely lost it.Not about to be outdone, he fought back immediately. He had his people leak dirt on Claire. While she was with him, she'd also been secretly sleeping with a rich Hollywood director. And she'd planned to divorce Adrian the moment she got her hands on the Devaux family's money!The scandal surrounding the "love story of the century" dominated every entertainment headline and

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    Before the Duke could react, I switched on the projector in the living room.The next instant, an emergency video conference with the Ashbourne Group's global board appeared on the wall!Dozens of key shareholders and directors from across the group were on the call, along with members of the press!"Members of the board," I said, facing the camera, my voice calm and utterly commanding. "This is Evelyn, the Ashbourne Trust's fully authorized representative. I am now formally submitting ironclad proof that for the past five years, the Duke of Ashbourne has been falsifying financial statements and embezzling company funds to the tune of tens of millions of pounds!"Every illegal transfer record he had signed was on the screen, clear as day!The shareholders on the call erupted, shouting angry accusations over one another!"As the largest shareholder, with 41.5 percent, I formally move," I said, looking coldly at my father, whose face had turned ashen, "that the Duke of Ashbourne be remov

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    Adrian hadn't been bluffing.Only three days later, a carefully planned media and legal attack came roaring across the ocean.The Duke of Ashbourne formally petitioned the High Court in London for temporary control of my assets, claiming that "Evelyn Ashbourne is mentally unstable and under the control of a foreign fraud ring."At the same time, Adrian paid off several major European tabloids. Soon, news reports claimed that I had "gone crazy before the wedding and fled to the American wilderness" and that a "savage cowboy" had brainwashed me into blowing my late mother's fortune.Once the news reached Montana, European paparazzi and reporters swarmed into town like flies that had smelled blood.The farm's new orders from several organic grocery chains were suddenly put on hold. People in town began giving me suspicious looks and keeping their distance."Cole, maybe... maybe I should go stay at a hotel in town for a while."Late that night, I sat under the lamp in the living room, star

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