The Billionaire Heiress's Unforeseen Marriage
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on was being prepared: my twentieth birthday party. It was supposed to be a grand cele
ll upon the mantelpiece, where my mother's favorite crystal music box sat. It was the last gift she had eve
weet smile on her face. "That's so pretty," sh
ust a little too clumsy, her grip a little too loose. The music
ped. The silen
the betrayal, the endless public humilia
rage. I pointed a trembling finger at the door. "Ge
d-held a flicker of triumph. "I'm sorry!" she wailed, backi
my mother. I collapsed to my knees, my body wracked with sobs of pure, unfiltered anguis