Proposal Night, Reality Shattered

years, he'd poured his wealth into Maya Rodriguez, funding her lavish life, her family's endless medical bills, and her brother's elite

Maya, her family, and her childhood friend Leo Maxwell. "You can't marry him, Maya. He stole you," Leo sobbed, his voice cracking. "

just a benefactor; he was a pawn, a source of endless funds, destined for public humiliation. Maya

been so blind, so desperate to resuscitate a ghost, that he fell for such a calculated deception? Th

his entire life in New York – it was all over. He was leaving. He was done