The Billionaire Who Stole My Heart

[The Lynette family was so loaded, could they really not afford a few hundred hangers-on? Were they about to hit skid row?]

[If you had ten grand in your pocket, would you hand it all over to some panhandler on the street?]

[The prize money's in the hundreds of millions - talk about deep pockets!]

No sooner had the announcement for the competition been made than it went viral, raking in hundreds of thousands of shares in less than thirty minutes.

In just three days, it drew hundreds of thousands of eager applicants.

Yuri hadn't expected such a groundswell of interest and encouraged Brittany to go all in.

Meanwhile, in Craneville, at a research institute.

"His condition has stabilized."

Elijah, who was tuning in to the latest on Brittany's grand preparations for the Crown Jewel Design Challenge, let a shadow flicker across his eyes. "Okay."

the Crown Jewel Design Challenge commenced. The Lynette Conglomerate, with Brittany at the helm, had eyes on every application. Organizing the competition wasn't just a publicity

hundreds of thousands of

process. Now, as the organizer with a vested interest, she ensured the event stayed in the limelight, quickly climbing the ranks to become Craneville's trending topic within a

esteemed Judge Meyer, catapulting

from morning sickness, only to see Brittany basking in glory, which left her fuming with envy and resentment. She had tried to land a job with the Lynette Conglomerate years ago, only to be turned down by Yuri, who claimed

Conglomerate seemed to

Saskia not be green with

up as it progressed, with

of the finale, Brittany wrapped up her work and headed back to the Lynette Mansion earlier than

unfamiliar with the route, inadvertently drove near the

at her heart as she gazed at the villa, a pang of

stepped out of the car, walked up to the villa's gate, and stood

chauffeur finally figured out the directions and

haunted by the image of that villa; it felt all

nightmare - a pipe as thick as an arm crashing down, mixing with the rain, the cold, hard drops splattering