The whole East Coast knew I'd gone after Victor.I bought a newly discovered planet and had it named after him, then presented it to him at the most glamorous gala of the season. When his stomach was acting up and he missed a meeting, I dropped everything and showed up at his door with soup.He was cold to me the whole time.He told me he was in love with someone else, a girl with no family name, no connections. Sophia. The family stood in the way of them marrying, he said, but she was the only one he'd ever want.It hurt, but I let him go. I wished him well and moved on.His father, though, had other ideas. He wanted Victor to marry me, because I was the Moretti heiress, after all.I'd almost forgotten Victor entirely when he showed up at my birthday party out of nowhere. That night he drank three bottles of XO, grabbed my arm, and kept asking: "Delora, Delora, do you still love me?"Even drunk, that face of his did things to me.When I hesitated, he got serious. He swore that he and
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