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.

gaze was always loveless-cold, even

the truth

the entire baby-switching scheme from

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

Carla was just as terrified that

up in the shadows, her childhood marked

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

no matter how hard she tried, Pearl was always the daughter, always the sister, in their

Isadora bent over backward, swallowing her pride, doing

Nothing changed.

being kidnapped for Isadora to see

loyal you are, if

she couldn't have

would have money. Her own

$400 million investment loomed before

from Wainwright Holdings, only The Fitzgerald Group in Capitolion had the

going to humble herself and ask

No.

days when

was only one person who could help her now:

Isadora remembered that night.

had promised

to make her his

meant she still hadn't used that favor-she could cash it in for this

The Fitzgerald Group.

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