Her Empire

For seven years, I poured my passion, my dreams, and every spare cent into our future, believing Jackson and I were building something real.

Then, his engagement party to socialite Blair Kennedy became front-page news, exposing the truth about the "sentimental" cubic zirconia ring he’d given me.

The ultimate betrayal struck when my beloved grandmother, my only family, desperately needed a $100,000 surgery, and Jackson, the man I trusted with my life savings, coldly refused to release a dime of *my* money.

"Old people get sick," he scoffed, before having me forcibly removed from a fancy restaurant, publicly shaming me as a gold-digger.

He meticulously drained my hard-earned savings, funnelling it into Blair’s lavish diamond, while forcing me to sign IOUs for groceries and calling it “financial discipline.”