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, even

the truth came

the entire baby-switching scheme

at all—she'd even abandoned her at a hospital, leaving her in a trash bin out of sight. The only

Carla was just as terrified that Isadora

in the shadows, her

back into the Vaughan family, she craved the love of Richard, Eleanor-even Prescott.

how hard she tried, Pearl was always the daughter, always

years, Isadora bent over backward, swallowing her pride, doing everything she could to win

Nothing changed.

kidnapped for Isadora

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

she couldn't

money. Her own

that $400 million investment loomed

only The Fitzgerald Group in Capitolion had the

going to humble herself and ask Magnus for

No.

days when she begged for scraps of

only one person who

Isadora remembered that night.

promised her one

to make her his

that favor-she

The Fitzgerald Group.

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