Chapter 31The black leather folder sitting on the glass coffee table looked like an unexploded bomb.Maya stared at it, the frantic, terrified drumming of her heart completely out of sync with the suffocating silence of the drawing room. Tristan Thorne. The arrogant, untouchable architect who had shredded her portfolio, mocked her father's blue-collar roots, and systematically blacklisted her from every major firm in Seattle.She had spent months believing her career died because she simply wasn't good enough.Now, the truth was staring her in the face. Tristan hadn't rejected her because her drafting skills were lacking. He had destroyed her livelihood to ensure she was starving, desperate, and completely out of options the moment Elias handed Julian her debt.Maya reached out, her fingers brushing the cold leather. She flipped the folder open.Inside rested a birth certificate bearing the name Tristan Elias Thorne, alongside a massive stack of heavily encrypted financial transfers.
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