No One Could Handle the Billionaire CEO’s Twin Girls—Until a Single Dad Janitor Did the possible
The Breaking Point of a Billionaire CEO
The elevator doors opened to chaos again. Laya Ashford pressed her fingers to her temples as she heard the screaming echo through the marble-floored hallway of the Ashford Industries executive suite.
Her twin daughters, Emma and Lily, were at it once more. This time, according to her assistant’s frantic text, they’d locked themselves in the conference room. They were using $10,000 fountain pens as projectiles.
Laya was the youngest female CEO in the company’s 70-year history. She was worth $3 billion at 34 and had been featured on the cover of Forbes twice.
She could negotiate hostile takeovers and command boardrooms full of skeptical investors. She could turn failing divisions profitable within quarters. But her own six-year-old daughters? They were breaking her.
“Ms. Ashford, I’m sorry, but I can’t,” the nanny rushed past her. She was the 17th in eight months. Mascara streamed down her cheeks, and a designer purse was clutched to her chest.
“I have a master’s degree in child psychology, but those girls? They’re impossible. I quit!” Laya didn’t even try to stop her.
What was the point? They all left eventually. The twins had systematically dismantled every nanny, tutor, and caregiver she’d hired since her ex-husband, Marcus, had walked out two years ago.
He’d wanted the glamorous life of a tech billionaire’s husband without the actual responsibility of fatherhood. When things got messy—when Emma started having nightmares and Lily stopped speaking for three months—he simply sent divorce papers.
He moved to Monaco through his lawyer. The twins hadn’t been the same since, and neither had Laya.
