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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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said. “But then again, unstable systems tend to collapse from the inside.”

Victoria frowned, as if she had been insulted in a language she didn’t fully speak. Carter almost smiled.

At that exact moment, her phone buzzed in the small clutch at her side.

She looked down.

A single message from Daniel flashed across the screen:

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