Chapter 37

Isadora sat alone in her office.

She pressed her fountain pen to her forehead, eyes fixed on the view outside as she fell deep into thought.

The Vaughan Group's Global Project was seeking $400 million in sponsorship.

She knew Pearl would pull every trick in the book to secure it.

After all, a 10% stake in The Vaughan Group meant annual dividends that could reach millions—money that would keep flowing for years to come.

Once upon a time, Isadora might not have cared so much about money.

She'd cared about family-except her adoptive mother, Carla, had been anything

but loving. In fact, Carla had been downright cruel.

For twenty years, Isadora had endured a relentless cycle of emotional

manipulation, icy silence, and outright abuse.

If she brought home perfect grades, Carla would only grow colder.

If she made friends, Carla's mood soured.

Even laughter became a sin.

Back then, Isadora couldn't understand why Carla disliked her so much, why she seemed determined to make her miserable.

always loveless-cold,

truth came

the entire baby-switching

at all—she'd even abandoned her at a hospital, leaving her in a trash bin out of sight. The only reason Carla took her back was fear: if someone found

that Isadora might

grew up in the shadows, her childhood marked by

back into the Vaughan family, she craved the love of Richard, Eleanor-even Prescott. She longed for them to care

she tried, Pearl was always the daughter, always

over backward, swallowing her

Nothing changed.

being kidnapped for Isadora to see

you sacrifice or how loyal you are, if someone doesn't love you, nothing will

she couldn't

money. Her

now, that $400 million investment

only The Fitzgerald Group in Capitolion had the resources

to humble herself and ask Magnus

No.

refused to go back to the days when she begged

one person who

Isadora remembered that night.

had promised her one

agreed to

that favor-she could cash it

The Fitzgerald Group.

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