LOGIN"Three billion? You've got to be kidding me, Evelyn, I knew you liked the lifestyle but I didn't think you were this greedy, or maybe you really were just a gold digger this entire time like Rebecca always said," he spat, his voice dripping with sudden contempt. "You said I could name my price, Arthur, and that is the price for three years of my life that I can never get back, so either you pay it or we can spend the next year fighting this in court and making sure your precious Samantha has to wait even longer to marry you," I said, picking up the pen that was tucked into the envelope.***** Evelyn spent three years playing the part of the perfect, invisible wife to Arthur Hayes, a man who only married her out of a sense of obligation to his father. She endured the cold nights, the silence, and the constant belittling from his family, hoping that one day he would truly see her. But when his first love returns, Arthur doesn't hesitate to throw divorce papers in her face. After a final, violent confrontation where Arthur chooses a lie over the truth, Evelyn disappears with a secret he was never supposed to know. Five years later, she is back—not as the girl who needed a savior, but as a powerhouse who owns the very debt threatening to sink the Hayes empire. Arthur wants his heir and a second chance, but Evelyn is no longer for sale. This time, if he wants her, he’ll have to survive the wreckage of the lies he once believed.
View MorePOV: EvelynI leave the gala early. I don’t storm out or make a scene. I just disappear the second I can breathe again because if one more person stops me to talk about “how inspiring” my speech was, I might actually lose my mind.Toby fell asleep in the car on the way home. He’s still half asleep when I carry him upstairs, his arms loosely around my neck while his head rests against my shoulder.“Mommy,” he mumbles sleepily.“Hmm?”“You looked sad tonight.”My chest tightens slightly.“I’m fine baby.”“You do the face again when you lie.”Of course I did. I kiss the top of his head quietly before pushing open his bedroom door with my shoulder.“You’re too smart,” I mutter.“I know,” he whispers proudly before immediately falling back asleep the second I lay him down.I stand there for a minute after covering him properly.Just watching him because every single thing happening right now comes back to him eventually and I hate that more than anything.Arthur digging.Samantha running.
POV: NinaFor a second after Evelyn walks away, I can’t move.I just stand there staring after her while my chest tightens so hard it actually hurts. The look on her face keeps replaying in my head over and over again. Not anger.Disappointment.That’s worse.“Nina,” Rebecca says quietly behind me.I pull away from her immediately.“Don’t.”My voice comes out sharper than I intended and Rebecca goes silent for a second. I turn fully toward her now, my breathing uneven as I run a hand through my hair.“This is exactly what I didn’t want,” I mutter.“She was going to find out eventually.”“That’s not the point.”Rebecca watches me carefully while I pace once near the sinks, my heels clicking against the marble floor louder than they should.“She thinks I betrayed her.”Rebecca’s expression barely changes. “Did you?”I stop moving and my head snaps toward her.“That’s not fair.”“No,” Rebecca agrees calmly. “But it’s still a question.”I stare at her in disbelief for a second before lett
POV: EvelynIt took weeks before I finally received my invitation and when it was time to go, I almost canceled twice before I even left the house.Not because I’m nervous. I stopped being nervous about public appearances a long time ago. It comes with business. Cameras, interviews, fake smiles, people pretending they support causes they barely care about because it looks good in photographs.I can handle all that. What I can’t handle is the fact that tonight puts everything in the same room.Arthur.Rebecca.Nina.Malachi.And me.Right in the center of it.Toby is sitting on the couch while I finish adjusting the clasp of my earrings. He looks up from the tablet in his hands when I walk into the living room and his face immediately brightens.“You look fancy,” he says.I snort softly. “That’s one word for it.”“You look rich-rich,” he corrects.“That’s definitely the same thing.”He grins and hops off the couch, walking over to me. His little hands smooth over the front of my dress
POV: ArthurI don’t sleep.By three in the morning, I stop pretending I’m trying to.The city lights cut through the glass walls of the penthouse, stretching across the floor in long pale lines while I sit in the dark with a drink I haven’t touched in over twenty minutes. My phone is still on the table beside me, screen dim, the photo of Toby burned into my head so deeply at this point that I don’t even need to look at it anymore.Every time I close my eyes, I see him.And every time I see him, I see her standing beside him like I was never supposed to exist in that picture.My jaw tightens slightly.No.That’s the part I can’t let go of because Evelyn didn’t just leave me. She rebuilt an entire life without me in it and somehow that irritates me more than the lies.The soft sound of footsteps pulls me out of my thoughts and I glance up just as Rebecca walks into the room wearing one of my old shirts like she owns the place.Maybe she thinks she does.“You’re brooding again,” she says

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