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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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By the time the invitation arrived, Carter had already learned that wealth and class were not the same thing. Wealth was measurable, transferable, taxable, and frighteningly fragile. Class, in Ethan’s family, was mostly theater—carefully lit, deeply rehearsed, and vicious whenever anyone forgot their assigned role.

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