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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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eyes then. She could see the cracks in his carefully constructed world, the weight of his guilt finally settling in. It was almost tragic, the way he had been raised to value the wrong things, to view power as a birthright rather than something earned.

“You can’t fix it, Ethan,” Carter said, her voice steady but final. “You never could. You’ve already continue reading …

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