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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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whatever papers people carry these days.”

The conversation shifted on command, and Carter let it. She was accustomed to underestimation. In fact, she often depended on it. But there was something uniquely ugly about watching Ethan stand beside her and do nothing while his family carved at her in public, sentence by sentence, smile by smile.

Twice, he continue reading …

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