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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 all the right things but still weren’t sure if it was enough.

“Of course,” she said evenly, taking a glass of champagne from a passing waiter without a second thought. “Everything’s perfect.”

But the lie was a strange thing, twisting in her chest, and the longer she stayed in this gilded cage, the more it grated. Ethan didn’t notice. He didn’t see continue reading …

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