The Betrayer's Inheritance

tering on ruin, smoothed the borrowed silk of her blue dress,

family, the "association" that could save them all, as Cha

as Charlie' s brothers, arrogant and entitled, began a

ing at "more than just a dance," a wave of relief washed ov

hopes were brutally crushed as Charlie Jr., champagne in h

ng faces confirmed it: "It was all a game," a meticulously cra

awoke disoriented in a squalid motel, blindi

here, her reputation irrevocably destroyed, her

despair that felt like drowning, as if h

own bed, the cheap blue dress still laid out, the date on her ph

ail, every searing humiliation, every

sible gift of a second chance, and this time, her hand