The Billionaire's Insignificant Wife
Daniel said.
"Your wife's father was never in debt to this family." Edmund spoke the words gently, like a man laying a card on a table. "Richard Hayes invested wisely and honestly. The debt was manufactured, line by line, by me, through your mother's hands. Eight million dollars of paper, built to bind a young woman to my son."
The room tilted. Alina put a hand against the doorframe. She had known, ever since Vincent's confession, that the debt was a lie. Hearing it spoken by the man who had designed it was different.