The Declined Card: My Ex-husband is now My Guarddog
"A divorced woman is a financial liability, Maeva."
The heavy, gold-tipped cane of Patriarch David Sterling struck the marble floor of the executive suite, the sharp sound echoing like a gunshot through the silent room.
David Sterling, the terrifying, iron-fisted patriarch of the Sterling dynasty, had just arrived from Geneva. He stood by the floor-to-ceiling glass window, his silver hair neatly combed, his tailored wool coat hanging from his broad shoulders. He didn't look like an old man; he looked like a sovereign ruler who had spent fifty years deciding the fates of global markets. With a single flick of his wrist, he had dismissed her entire secretarial staff, leaving only Maeva and her