The Price of His "Parting Gift"

cocooning Ava Reed as she drove to Ethan Hayes' s mansio

en she overheard Ethan tell his friends she was just a "fun accessory," a "f

back, walking out on the man who had reduced their love to a transaction. But the humiliation didn' t end there. He gav

ual deception? The public smear campaign that followed, orchestrated by Ethan and Seraphina, painted her as a

ading her to a shocking truth that would not only reclaim her name and fort