The Ruthless Billionaire Claims His Rival's Sister

Chapter 2

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er tablet. The headlines screamed at her from

ling to Propose to Starl

: Inside Andrew Sterling'

ance culminating in a spectacular public proposal. Chloe's stomach churned as she rea

striking resemblance to that of her late mother, and she should have felt a sense of closeness

g out. She only

number of her most trusted confidant

urgent, stripped of its usual lightness. "Eva, I need y

the other end. She had never hear

cutting off any potential questions. "Everythi

asure boutique in the city. The one that requires a pri

e the most expensive, the most outrageous item they have. And most impor

a word. Pleasure boutique? The Kensington family?

leaving no room for argument. "I need it in my hands w

ty and applied her makeup with a surgeon's precision-a smoky, smudged eyeliner that hinted at a

ic clung to her body, languid and sensual. It looked like something one

brother's closet, found an old silk dress shirt he no longer wore, and tossed it carelessly

w cabs stream down Fifth Avenue, her heart a calm, stea

d to avenge him, gathering evidence against Sloane. But Sloane had been too powerful by

ght the discreet, elegant black box,

the box and

made of white gold. And there, on the tiny clasp, was the unmistakable, micr

ly whispered, her anxiety palpable. "I

mile. "You'll understand soon, Eva." She closed the box and

er, Andrew's handsome, but distinctly impatient, face appeared on

le of something. This h

strap of her nightgown "accidentally" slip from her sho

ask... what's your rival'

hrown. "What rival? What the

She let it dangle from her fingers, the fine gold ca

he tiny, perfect griffin crest. Then she looked back at

s just that my new toy happens to hav

ce vanished, replaced in an instant by disb

pping with poison, "do you think Julian Kensington would p

es boring into her through the screen, as if he wanted to

een a success. Andrew's focus w

ly on her. An

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“In her past life, she watched her brother, Andrew, destroy himself for a woman who never loved him. Family fortune gone. Their father's company gutted. Andrew framed, disgraced, dead in a prison cell. Then Chloe was pushed off a rooftop. The last thing she saw before the pavement shattered her body was Sloane Ashford's face-standing at the edge, smiling down at her broken form. That smile was the last thing she ever saw. Until she opened her eyes. Twenty-two years old. Two years before everything went wrong. The exact day Andrew was about to put a ring on Sloane's finger. This time, Chloe wouldn't scream at him. She wouldn't beg. She knew exactly what her brother feared more than anything-his sworn enemy, Julian Kensington. "What if I slept with my brother's worst enemy?" The thought was insane. She bought a custom body chain with the Kensington family crest engraved on its clasp. She slipped into a silk nightgown that left little to the imagination. She called her brother on video, let the camera pan lazily across her rumpled bed, and held up her new "gift" with a wicked smile. "Look what Julian gave me. Beautiful, isn't it?" The bait was set. The trap snapped shut. Andrew canceled the proposal. He raced home. Sloane was dragged out of Sterling Tower by security, soaked in rain, humiliated on every news channel in the city. Chloe's plan had worked perfectly. Too perfectly. On the other end of that video call-watching the entire performance from his sleek Manhattan office-Julian Kensington had one question. The girl he'd never met was wearing his family crest. His name was on her lips. And she was using him as a weapon. He leaned back in his chair, gray eyes fixed on the frozen image of her wrist, that delicate gold chain, that unmistakable griffin crest.”