THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECOND CHANCE BETRAYAL
The box was shaking, hard enough to bruise.
She flipped the lid.
That purple heart—the one grown from the vines—wasn’t silver anymore. Now it pulsed with a deep, blinding green. Not so much a heart as a seed pod.
“The second debt,” June murmured.
She didn’t give the heart away. Didn’t use it to mend the Tree.
She swallowed it, whole.
Pain crashed through her, wild and raw; a whole forest felt like it was growing inside her chest. Her skin transformed—no stone this time, but bright, glowing green leaves shot from her arms, her hair twisting out into living vines.