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.”
But Carter wasn’t interested in just expanding her wealth. She was interested in control—the kind that didn’t come with strings, the kind that didn’t tie her down to anyone but herself.
That was when she realized something that unsettled her even more than the silence of her own thoughts: she had become the very thing she continue reading …