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Paige gave Giselle's hands a reassuring squeeze. "Don't worry. You're the only one I'll accept as Leo's wife."

After years of pining for Leo, Giselle had long outgrown the blushing schoolgirl routine.

Now her voice carried a note of melancholy. "But what if he never feels the same way?"

"Please. With me in your corner, who else could he possibly marry?"

Giselle threw her arms around Paige. "You're the best! I don't know what I'd do without you."

Paige stroked her cheek affectionately. "Sweetie, we're going to be family. This is what family does."

"But what about Carol?" Giselle's voice dropped with worry. "She's your niece, Leo's cousin. What if we never get along? I still don't understand why she pushed me into that pool."

The truth was, Giselle knew exactly what she'd done-she just didn't know the whole story.

At her birthday party, she'd made several snide remarks about Caroline's poor taste in men.

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She'd assumed they were all adults who understood consequences-that Caroline might be upset but would never actually do anything about it.

How wrong she'd been.

Besides, Giselle didn't know Caroline had lost her memory. She'd assumed their childhood grudges were water under the bridge, not realizing they'd become fresh wounds in Caroline's mind-making her dunking inevitable.

"Giselle," Paige said firmly, "you're going to be Leo's wife. I won't have you suffering in silence. You understand me?"

Their eyes met, and Giselle felt a surge of determination.

In her mind, Caroline only dared to attack her because she was the Ashbourne Group's heiress, untouchable and above

consequences.

After that birthday party, Giselle had become the laughingstock of their social circle.

She'd never been so humiliated in her entire life.

the Reeves family dragged through the mud alongside her, this was

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true you have a personal

crash just days ago. The police are calling

when Stellar Films dropped it? When they crush you at the box office, won't you

write the script yourself.

only this confident because you've got the Ashbourne Group

at Alistair from all directions, cameras

is what they mean by "fame

until 3 pm,

him, he'd decided to track down her attending

been ambushed halfway

circus.

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of microphones with an easy smile. "Time will

back into the car and drove

Caroline watched the footage of Alistair's video, frowning. "What the hell is wrong with these people? They're

added, "God, he looks

mentally rolled his

here to watch her

of the employees had been slacking off, saw

and immediately

the company understood that Alistair

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genuinely admired

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an almost

aloof. Arrogant, even. She didn't schmooze or play politics, didn't seem to know or

employee respected the hell out of

someone so young.

devoted. Other companies had tried poaching her

their association with her companies

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