Too Good At Goodbye’s: The Architect’s Hidden heir
Zara Storme was the ghost in the machine at Sterling Global.
For three years, she wasn’t just Mark Sterling’s fiancée she was The Architect. The unseen force who patched his weaknesses, outplayed his rivals, and quietly engineered a billion-dollar empire while he collected the applause.
Then, over an elegant dinner, Mark slid a severance check across the table instead of a ring.
To him, Zara was indispensable but temporary. Brilliant, yes. Loyal, certainly. But she lacked the pedigree required for his permanent throne. So he chose optics over love, trading her for a strategic merger and a well-bred socialite.
Mark expected tears. Begging. A woman unraveling.
What he didn’t know was that abandonment had trained Zara long before him. Her father had taught her the art of leaving without looking back.
Fueled by a quiet rage, Zara committed one final act of treason which was leaking Mark’s most valuable upcoming deals to his greatest rival, Asher Vane. It was meant to be her clean exit.
Then fate intervened.
She was pregnant.
Five years later, Zara returns to the city reborn as the formidable CEO of Lucent Capital. No longer the woman behind the throne, she is the throne. A venture-capital titan whose influence eclipses every man who once dismissed her.
At her side is Luca her five-year-old masterpiece. Disciplined. Brilliant. And unmistakably the son of the man who walked away.
When Mark Sterling’s empire begins to collapse under the weight of its own lies, desperation drives him to seek salvation from a firm powerful enough to save him.
He comes to the boardroom expecting mercy.
Instead, he finds Zara Storme seated at the head of the table untouchable, and finally holding his fate in her hands.
This time, she’s here to watch it burn.