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I never told my boyfriend’s arrogant parents that I was the one who owned the bank holding all their debt. To them, I was just “some barista with no future.” At their luxury yacht party, his mother sneered and shoved a drink into my hands, spilling it down my dress. “Staff should stay below deck,” she said coldly. His father laughed. “Careful—don’t ruin the furniture.”

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and Carter had learned early on that no one stayed loyal without a price.

The first few days after the takeover were consumed with meetings at Crestline, with her legal team, and with consultants who had been waiting for her to take control. They were eager, almost too eager, to please her, to tell her how they could make her empire even bigger, more continue reading …

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