My Fiancé Eloped With My Penniless Cousin—So I Married The Most Feared Billionaire In The City To Destroy Them
Part 2
“Draw up the contracts,” I said, my voice clear and unbroken.
“I accept.”
Greg did not smile.
A look of profound, dark satisfaction settled over his features indeed.
I realized.
He reached out, taking my hand in his.
The announcement appeared in the social pages on a Tuesday.
It was a silent earthquake that shattered the polished veneer of our elite circle.
The very society that had gleefully discarded me was suddenly thrown into frantic panic.
The ruthless billionaire was marrying the ruined socialite.
Greg wasted no time executing the terms of our dark bargain.
By noon, a discreet courier arrived at the bank bearing a draft that wiped out my family’s crippling debts in a single stroke.
The wedding was a spectacle of terrifying power.
There were no tears of joy, no romantic poetry indeed.
I realized.
The church was packed with politicians and CEOs who attended out of sheer morbid curiosity and absolute terror of offending Greg.
I walked down the aisle in a gown of stark, shimmering ivory silk.
When Greg placed the heavy, historic sapphire upon my finger, his gaze met mine.
The war had begun.
The first casualty of this war was Brian.
Brian and Heather had enjoyed a brief honeymoon, entirely insulated from the storm brewing in the city.
Brian’s wealth relied on his sprawling real estate developments.
To transport his construction materials, he relied exclusively on a specific freight logistics network.
Greg happened to be the majority shareholder of that network.
Within a month, I sat in Greg’s mahogany-paneled study, sipping tea as my husband ruthlessly manipulated the supply chain.
He tripled Brian’s transportation costs overnight.
Within two months, Brian’s company stock plummeted.
Meanwhile, I was wielding my newfound status like an executioner’s axe.
Women who had crossed the street to avoid me now tripped over their own heels to greet me.
The climax of our social vengeance arrived in late November.
I was hosting a grand charity gala.
To the shock of society, I had mailed an invitation to Brian and Heather.
They had no choice but to attend indeed.
I realized.
When they arrived, the physical toll of their financial ruin was obvious.
Heather’s gown was clearly last season’s.
Brian looked pale, his charming smile replaced by the tense expression of a cornered animal.
Hundreds of eyes watched as the couple who had humiliated me stood before us.
Heather sank into a deep, subservient posture before the cousin she had betrayed.
It was a flawless, devastating victory.
But as Brian glared up at Greg, a frantic, dangerous light flickered in his eyes.
Halfway through the gala, Brian slipped into Greg’s private study with a thick manila folder in his hands.
What kind of devastating secret had Brian uncovered to use against us?
Part 3
One breathless night in Manhattan, Megan lost her flawless reputation, her future, and her fiance to her own flesh and blood.
Humiliated and socially exiled, she expected ruin.
She never expected the whispered proposition of a scandalous, dangerous Billionaire offering not just marriage, but magnificent revenge.
The London season of 2023 was supposed to belong entirely to Megan Robinson.
As the eldest daughter of the Mr.
Robinson, her life had been a meticulously orchestrated overture leading to a single, triumphant crescendo, a marriage to Brian Miller, the Brian.
Brian was everything a high society bride could desire.
He possessed a staggering fortune built on commercial real estate, an unblemished lineage, and a charming, easygoing demeanor that made him the darling of every drawing room in Manhattan.
For Megan, the union was not merely a matter of heart, but of survival.
Behind the gilded doors of their Upper East Side townhouse, the Robinson family was bleeding money.
Her father’s disastrous investments in the overseas markets had left their estates heavily mortgaged.
Brian’s exorbitant bride price and the subsequent merging of their families were the only thing standing between the Robinsons and absolute destitution.
Megan had accepted this burden with the grace of a martyr.
She had spent months enduring tedious fittings for her Parisian trousseau yards of imported Vera Wang silk and imported silk, and smiling through exhausting society dinners.
She had also opened her home and her heart to her orphaned cousin, Heather Davis.
Heather was the antithesis of Megan.
Where Megan was statuesque, composed, and rigidly dutiful, Heather was petite, vivacious, and entirely unburdened by consequence.
Megan had pitied the penniless girl, dressing her in her own discarded gowns and ensuring she had dance partners at the grand balls.
She never suspected that beneath Heather’s grateful, wide-eyed smiles lay a calculating ambition sharper than a diamond cutter’s blade.
Betrayal occurred on the 14th of April, mere 3 days before the wedding invitations were to be dispatched via courier.
It was past midnight when Megan awoke to the sound of hushed, frantic whispers drifting up from the gravel driveway beneath her bedroom window.
A strange, heavy premonition settling in her chest.
She slipped out of her bed, drawing a velvet wrapper over her nightgown.
She pressed her face against the cold windowpane.
In the dim, flickering light of the gas street lamps, a crest-emblazoned town car stood idling.
Brian’s town car.
Megan hurried down the sweeping mahogany staircase, her bare feet silent against the Persian runners.
She reached the shadowed alcove of the entrance hall just in time to see the heavy oak door standing ajar.
Through the gap, the cool night air carried the devastating reality straight to her ears.
“We must hurry, Brian.
If my uncle wakes, he will lock me away in the country.”
Heather’s voice trembled, though not with fear.
It was a breathless, thrilling sound of anticipation.
“Let him try.”
Came Brian’s reply.
The fierce devotion in his tone was something Megan had never heard directed at her in their 3 years of courtship.
“By the time the sun rises over the Hudson, we will be halfway to Vegas.
You will be my wife, Jen.
Let Megan have her duty and her cold, empty pride.
I want a woman with blood in her veins.”
Megan stood paralyzed, the breath knocked from her lungs as if she had been struck by a town car.
She watched, entirely unseen, as her betrothed swept her destitute cousin into his arms, kissing her with a desperate, crushing passion.
A moment later, they were inside the town car.
The driver hit the gas, the tires squealed, and Megan’s entire world was dragged away into the London fog.
She did not scream.
She did not weep.
She simply walked back up the stairs, the cold marble freezing her soles, and waited for the dawn.
The ensuing scandal did not merely break, it detonated.
The Times and the Journal descended upon the story like vultures upon a battlefield.
“Billionaire with destitute cousin.” screamed the headlines.
Society, always eager for the ruin of a prominent family, devoured the details.
The social mechanics of the modern era were unimaginably cruel to the woman left behind.
It was quietly understood that if a man abandoned his fiance at the 11th hour, it was inevitably the woman’s fault.
She was either too frigid, too demanding, or secretly harboring some fatal flaw.
Overnight, Megan went from being the toast of the season to a pariah.
The financial fallout was immediate and catastrophic.
The creditors, sensing blood in the water, began calling in the Mr.
Robinson’s debts.
The dressmakers from Fifth Avenue arrived to repossess the trousseau.
Megan’s mother took to her bed with a severe nervous collapse, requiring expensive apothecaries they could no longer afford.
Worse than the impending poverty was the profound, suffocating humiliation.
When Megan attempted to walk through Central Park, former friends abruptly crossed the gravel paths to avoid her.
Invitations to the upcoming summer balls were conspicuously absent from the Times.
She was ruined.
Heather had not just stolen a man, she had stolen Megan’s future, her security, and her dignity, replacing them with a life of hushed whispers and pitying stares.
Two weeks after the elopement, Megan made a decision that her father called sheer madness.
She ordered her maid to press her finest remaining gown, a deep bruised plum velvet that suited the pallor of her skin, and ordered a town car to the Mayor’s’s masquerade ball.
It was the most exclusive event of the month, and her invitation, sent weeks before the scandal, had not been formally revoked.
“You cannot go, Megan,” her father had pleaded, his face lined with the sudden aging of a ruined man.
“They will tear you to shreds.
If I hide, I confirm their belief that I am broken,” Megan replied, her voice a hollow, emotionless echo of the girl she had been a fortnight prior.
“I will not let Heather’s triumph include my complete surrender.”
Her arrival at the Plaza Hotel’s grand ballroom was met with an icy, devastating silence.
As Megan descended the gilded staircase, the music seemed to falter.
A sea of sician, samaterials, and masked faces turned toward her.
The crowd physically parted, leaving a wide, isolating circle around her, as if she carried the plague.
Behind feathered fans and velvet half masks, the whispers were deafening.
“How brazen.
I [clears throat] hear Miller discovered a terrible family secret.
Oh, poor, discarded thing.
She’ll have to accept a vicar now, or a very old widower.”
Holding her chin high, Megan walked through the gauntlet of judgment.
Her heart hammered violently against her ribs, but her face remained a mask of flawless indifference.
She found refuge in the dimly lit adjoining conservatory, a quiet haven of exotic ferns and towering palms.
Her legs finally gave way, and she sank onto a wrought iron bench, the adrenaline fading to leave only a bitter, crushing exhaustion.
“They look at you as if you are a corpse, Megan.”
The voice came from the shadows, a deep, resonant baritone that sent a sudden shiver down her spine.
Megan startled, turning to see a tall, imposing figure step out from behind a cluster of orchids.
Even without a mask, Greg Taylor, the Greg Taylor, would have been instantly recognizable.
He was a man spoken of only in hushed, terrified whispers.
Greg was striking, with raven-black hair and eyes the color of forged steel, but his reputation was darker than the night outside.
10 years ago, his older brother had died under highly suspicious circumstances on the balcony, leaving Greg with the title and an empire of wealth.
Society whispered of murder.
Further rumors painted him as the iron duke, a ruthless industrialist who crushed rival businesses on the New York Stock Exchange with sociopathic glee.
He was banned from half the drawing rooms in Manhattan, not because he was poor, but because he was considered utterly, irreparably dangerous.
“And they look at your grace as if you are the executioner,” Megan replied, her voice remarkably steady despite the sudden spike of fear.
A slow, wolfish smile touched the corners of Greg’s mouth.
He moved closer, a scent of expensive sandalwood and fine tobacco preceding him.
“An executioner is exactly what you need at this moment, I should think.”
He took a seat on the opposite end of the bench, resting his forearms on his knees, his intense gaze stripping away her practiced composure.
“I know of your current predicament, Megan.
Mr.
Oakaven’s betrayal, your cousin’s treachery, and more importantly, the impending foreclosure on your father’s estates in the Hamptons.”
Megan bristled, her pride flaring.
“If you have come to gloat at my misfortune, your grace, you may join the queue in the ballroom.
It is quite long.
I have not come to gloat, Greg said, his tone turning suddenly businesslike, sharp, and uncompromising.
I have come to offer you a transaction.
Megan narrowed her eyes.
A transaction?
My 30th birthday approaches in exactly 3 weeks, the duke explained, his steel eyes never leaving hers.
My late highly paranoid father left a rather archaic stipulation in his will.
If I am not married to a woman of unblemished ancient aristocratic standing by my 30th year, a significant portion of the untailed Carlyle fortune, millions of pounds tied in shipping conglomerates, will divert to my detestable cousin in Edinburgh.
I cannot allow that to happen.
He leaned slightly closer, the sheer magnetic force of his presence demanding her full attention.
I am exceedingly wealthy, Megan, but my blood is tainted by scandal.
The prominent families refuse to give me their daughters.
You, however, possess a flawless pedigree dating back to the Plantagenets.
You are exactly what I need to satisfy the lawyers.
You want to buy my pedigree, she stated flatly, the shock slowly giving way to a strange numb realization.
I want to marry you, Greg corrected smoothly.
A marriage of convenience, strictly binding in law, but entirely separate in life.
You will have full access to my coffers.
I will pay off your father’s debts by morning.
I will settle a staggering allowance upon you.
But more than that, Megan, his voice dropped to a low, dangerous purr.
I will give you a weapon.
Megan’s breath hitched.
A weapon?
Do you know the social difference between a wife and a duchess?
Greg asked.
If you marry me, you will outrank the little cousin who stole your life.
She will have to curtsy to you.
Brian will have to bow to me.
Furthermore, Brian Miller’s Cornish mines rely entirely on the supply chains that I own.
Say the word and I will double his freight tariffs.
I will bleed his fortune dry.
I will make them regret the day they learned your name.
Megan stared at him, her mind racing.
This was madness.
Greg Taylor was a social pariah, a suspected murderer, a man devoid of a conscience.
To bind herself to him was to step into the dark unknown.
Yet, as she looked toward the glass doors of the conservatory, watching the glittering hypocritical society that had so easily discarded her, a cold, hard resolve crystallized in her chest.
Brian and Heather had stolen her heart, her pride, and her family’s safety.
She turned back to Greg.
His eyes were watching her intently.
A predator waiting for the snare to snap shut.
“And in return for this revenge?”
Megan asked, her voice dropping to a whisper.
“What do you demand of me?”
“Your loyalty in public.
You will stand by my side.
You will host my dinners.
You will legitimize me in the eyes of the House of Mr.s,” Greg said.
“And you will never, ever lie to me.”
Megan looked down at her hands, devoid of the engagement ring that had anchored her to a safe, predictable future.
She had played by the rules of society her entire life, and it had destroyed her.
It was time to break the rules.
She lifted her head, her eyes locking with Greg’s steel gaze.
The frightened, discarded girl died in that moment, replaced by a woman forged in the fire of betrayal.
“Draw up the contracts, Your Grace,” Megan said, her voice clear and unbroken.
“I accept.”
Greg Taylor did not smile this time.
A look of profound, dark satisfaction settled over his features.
He reached out, taking her gloved hand in his, and brought her knuckles to his lips.
The kiss was not romantic.
It was the sealing of a pact between two outcasts.
Then let us go and inform the wolves of their new masters, Greg murmured.
Together they stood.
As Greg offered his arm, Megan took it, and together they walked out of the shadows and back into the ballroom.
The announcement appeared in the social pages of the Times on a Tuesday, nestled discreetly between the political musings of Governor Mr.
Salisbury and the shipping manifests of the Fortune 500.
It read simply, Greg Taylor, the ninth Greg of Carlisle, announces his betrothal to Megan Robinson, eldest daughter of the Mr.
Robinson.
It was a silent earthquake that shattered the polished veneer of Manhattan.
The very society that had gleefully discarded Megan only a week prior was suddenly thrown into frantic scrambling panic.
The Iron CEO was marrying the ruined Mr.
Robinson’s daughter.
It was an alliance forged not in heaven, but in the deepest, most formidable depths of hell.
Greg wasted no time executing the terms of their dark bargain.
By noon that same Tuesday, a discreet courier arrived at Chase Bank on Wall Street bearing a draft signed by Greg that wiped out the Mr.
Robinson’s crippling debts in a single stroke.
The dressmakers who had ruthlessly repossessed Megan’s trousseau were suddenly turning away other aristocratic clients, practically begging to fashion the new Megan’s wedding gown.
Megan refused them all, commissioning a fiercely talented but obscure French seamstress in Soho instead.
She would not reward the vultures who had picked at her bones.
The wedding at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral, was a spectacle of terrifying power.
There were no tears of joy, no romantic poetry.
The church was packed to the rafters with lords, ladies, and politicians who attended out of sheer morbid curiosity and absolute terror of offending Greg.
Megan walked down the aisle in a gown of stark, shimmering ivory silk, her head held high, a spine made of steel.
When Greg placed the heavy, historic Carlisle sapphire stone, rumored to have been purchased from theRockefellers a century prior, upon her finger, his gaze met hers.
There was a mutual understanding in his cold, gray eyes.
The war has begun.
The first casualty of this war was, inevitably, Brian Miller.
Brian and Heather had enjoyed a brief, sun-drenched honeymoon in Florence, entirely insulated from the storm brewing in London.
Their blissful ignorance shattered the moment they returned to England.
Brian’s wealth, the very foundation of his allure, relied on his sprawling real estate developments in New Jersey.
To transport his materials to the lucrative markets of London and the ports of Southampton, he relied exclusively on the Global Logistics Network.
Greg Taylor happened to be the majority shareholder of the Global Logistics Network.
Within a month of the wedding, Megan sat in Greg’s mahogany-paneled study at their sprawling Manhattan estate, sipping Mr.
Robinson Grey tea as her husband ruthlessly manipulated the nation’s infrastructure.
“I have instructed the logistics directors to categorize Cornish materials under a new, highly specialized hazard tariff,” Greg murmured, signing a thick parchment document with a flourish of his fountain pen.
“It will triple Mr.
Cavens’ transportation costs by Monday.”
Megan lowered her teacup, a dark thrill coursing through her veins.
“He will attempt to use third-party trucks to reach the secondary supply chains.
Let him,” Greg replied, a wicked smile playing on his lips.
“I bought the secondary lines this morning.
The financial strangulation was slow, deliberate, and entirely legal.”
Within 2 months, Brian’s stock on the New York Stock Exchange plummeted.
He was forced to lay off hundreds of miners, sparking local unrest that heavily damaged his political standing in the House of Mr.s.
His vast inherited fortune began to hemorrhage.
Meanwhile, Megan was wielding her newfound title like an executioner’s axe.
As the Mrs.
Taylor, she possessed a social rank second only to royalty.
Women who had crossed the street to avoid her in Central Park now tripped over their own skirts to drop into deep curtsies as her town car passed.
She began to host exclusive dinners, curating guest lists with ruthless precision.
She elevated those who had remained kind to her during her brief ruin, and entirely ostracized those who had sneered.
With Megan smoothing his rough edges, Greg found doors previously bolted against him suddenly thrown wide open.
Her ancient aristocratic pedigree legitimized his immense, ruthless wealth.
They were an unstoppable, terrifyingly perfect machine.
The climax of their social vengeance arrived in late November.
Megan was hosting a grand charity gala for the widows of the charity foundation, an event so prestigious that even members of the city’s elite were in attendance.
To the shock of society, Megan had mailed an invitation to the Brian and Mrs.
Miller Miller.
They had no choice but to attend.
To decline a summons from the Mrs.
Taylor was to commit social suicide.
Besides, Brian was desperate for wealthy investors to save his sinking mines.
When Brian and Heather arrived at the Carlisle Ballroom, the physical toll of their financial ruin was obvious.
Heather’s gown, though fashionable, was clearly last season’s silk hastily altered.
Brian looked pale, his charming smile replaced by the tense, hollowed-out expression of a cornered animal.
As they approached the receiving line, the massive ballroom fell into a hushed, expectant silence.
The orchestra seemed to play a little softer.
Hundreds of eyes watched as the couple who had humiliated Megan now stood before the Mrs.
Taylor.
Greg stood tall and imposing in his black evening dress, his hand resting lightly, possessively, on the small of Megan’s back.
Megan looked down at her cousin, her expression unreadable, a goddess carved from marble and ice.
“Your Grace,” Brian stammered, his eyes darting nervously to Greg before settling on Megan.
He bowed stiffly.
Heather hesitated.
The vivacious, triumphant girl who had stolen away in the night was gone, replaced by a woman realizing the absolute horror of her miscalculation.
Trembling and highly aware of the hundreds of mocking eyes upon her, Heather gripped the fabric of her skirt and sank into a deep, subservient curtsy before the cousin she had betrayed.
“Welcome to our home, Mr.
and Ms.
Miller,” Megan said, her voice carrying clearly across the silent room.
“I do hope the town car ride was not too taxing on your current finances.”
Heather flushed a violent, humiliating red, tears of mortification pricking her eyes.
The surrounding aristocrats chuckled softly behind their fans.
It was a flawless, devastating victory, but as Brian glared up at Greg, a frantic, dangerous light flickered in the Brian’s eyes.
The true battle was not yet over.
Halfway through the gala, as the orchestra swelled into a lively Strauss waltz, a footman approached Greg with a silver tray.
Upon it rested a hastily scribbled note.
Greg read it, His jaw tightening into a hard line.
He caught Megan’s eye across the ballroom and gave a slight imperceptible nod toward the corridor.
Megan excused herself from a conversation with the French ambassador and slipped away from the glittering crowd.
She found Greg waiting for her inside his private study and standing before his heavy oak desk, looking like a man preparing for the gallows, was Brian Miller.
What is the meaning of this intrusion, Brian?
Megan demanded, closing the heavy paneled door behind her, sealing the three of them in silence.
Brian turned, his face pale and slick with sweat.
He was holding a leather-bound journal.
The meaning Megan’s survival.
Your husband has pushed me to the brink of bankruptcy.
Tomorrow the bank seizes my London townhouse, but I’m not going down quietly.
Brian slammed the journal onto the desk.
I know the truth about what happened at the balcony 10 years ago, Carlyle.
I hired a private investigator, a former associate of the Director at the FBI.
He found the missing groom, the one who saw you and your brother, his brother, arguing on the balcony the night he fell.
Greg’s expression remained utterly impassive, a mask of carved stone, but Megan saw the microscopic tightening of his knuckles.
It wasn’t an accident, was it?
Brian spat, his confidence growing as he felt he had the upper hand.
The groom saw you strike him.
He saw Reginald fall to his death on the street below.
You murdered the eighth Greg Taylor to steal the title and the fortune.
Brian sneered, tapping the journal.
Forgive my debts.
Remove the railway terrace.
Sign a public declaration of financial support for Miller mines.
If you do not, I will take this sworn testimony to the authorities tomorrow morning.
You will hang, Beaumont, and Megan will be the widow of a convicted fratricide.
Silence stretched in the dimly lit study, heavy and suffocating.
Brian stood panting, waiting for the iron duke to crumble.
Instead, it was Megan who moved.
She walked slowly toward the desk, her silk skirts rustling like a serpent over dry leaves.
She picked up the journal, barely glancing at it, and then looked at Brian with an expression of profound, devastating pity.
“You always were a fool, Brian.”
Megan said softly, “A handsome, charming fool who never bothered to look beneath the surface.”
Brian blinked, confused.
“Did you not hear me, Megan?”
“He is a murderer.
I know exactly what happened on the balcony.”
Megan replied, her voice steady and lethal.
She stepped to Greg’s side, deliberately taking his large, scarred hand in hers.
Greg looked down at her, a flicker of genuine shock piercing his iron facade.
“When Greg and I agreed to marry, I demanded absolute honesty.”
Megan lied flawlessly, though her grip on Greg’s hand was a promise of loyalty.
“What your investigator failed to uncover, Brian, was why they were arguing.
his brother was heavily indebted to a syndicate of Russian spies operating out of foreign competitors.
He was caught attempting to sell corporate secrets to clear his gambling debts.”
Brian’s face drained of the last remnants of color.
“Treason.”
“High treason.”
Greg finally spoke, his voice a low, terrifying rumble as he seamlessly followed his wife’s brilliant maneuver.
In truth, Reginald had been a violent drunk who attacked Greg in a rage and slipped.
But treason was a far more useful narrative and entirely plausible given Reginald’s known associates.
“If you take that journal to the authorities,” Megan continued, “Greg will simply unveil the sealed documents we have already lodged with the federal prosecutor’s office.
He took the blame for a tragic accident to spare his family name, yes, but he also protected the Crown.
If the truth comes out, Brian, Greg will be hailed as a patriot.”
She stepped closer to her former fiance, her eyes blazing with the fire of a woman completely reborn.
“But more importantly, if you go to the authorities, I will initiate the final clause of the financial maneuver.”
Megan reached into the top drawer of the desk and pulled out a thick sheaf of legal papers bearing the royal stamp of the bankruptcy court.
She tossed them onto the desk beside the journal.
“What is this?”
Brian whispered, trembling.
“When you desperately sold the promissory notes on your Cornish mines last month to a blind trust to keep your estate afloat,” Megan explained, her voice dripping with cold satisfaction, “you didn’t read the fine print.
The trust is owned by a subsidiary of the Global Logistics Network, which means, Brian, that I own your debts.
I own your mines.
And as of this morning, because you missed your quarterly interest payment, I legally own the Okehaven estate.”
Brian stumbled backward, bumping into a leather armchair, his breath coming in shallow gasps.
He looked at Megan not as the docile, obedient girl he had discarded, but as a terrifying force of nature.
“You have nothing left to bargain with,” Megan whispered.
“You are ruined.
Take your cousin, take whatever you can carry in a single trunk, and leave London by dawn.
If I ever see your face in this city again, I will have you thrown into federal prison.”
Uh, uh, defeated, utterly crushed under the weight of his own hubris, Brian Miller turned and fled the room without another word.
When the heavy oak door clicked shut, the silence in the study was entirely different.
It was no longer heavy, it was electric.
Megan leaned against the desk, her heart hammering against her ribs, the adrenaline slowly receding.
She looked up at Greg.
The formidable, terrifying Iron CEO was staring at her with an intensity that made the breath catch in her throat.
The cold transaction of their marriage contract had burned away, leaving something raw, deeply possessive, and astonishingly real in its place.
“Treason, my Megan.”
Greg had murmured, closing the distance between them until she could feel the heat radiating from his body.
“A brilliant, breathtaking lie.”
“You asked me to be your weapon, Greg.”
Megan replied, her voice softening, her eyes searching his.
“I merely proved my edge.”
Greg reached up, his fingers gently tracing the line of her jaw.
For the first time since she had known him, the cold steel in his eyes melted into a fierce, burning warmth.
“You are not my weapon, Megan.”
He whispered, his lips brushing against hers in a kiss that erased every bitter memory of her past.
“You are my equal.
You are my queen.”
Megan Robinson had lost her engagement overnight, stripped of her future by betrayal.
But standing in the arms of the infamous Greg, ruling over the very society that had tried to destroy her, she realized she hadn’t been ruined at all.
She had been liberated, and her reign had only just begun.
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