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."

meticulous preparation, the preliminaries of 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 stunt for YULI; it

eye, sifted through hundreds of thousands

the process. Now, as the organizer with a vested interest, she ensured the event

critiques were sharp, even rivaling the esteemed Judge Meyer,

fuming with envy and resentment. She had tried to land a job with the Lynette Conglomerate years ago, only to be turned down by

entire Lynette Conglomerate seemed to

Saskia not be

it progressed, with several impressive

her work and headed back to the Lynette Mansion earlier than

new chauffeur, unfamiliar with the route, inadvertently drove near the villa Brittany

gazed at the

the car, walked up

to go," The chauffeur finally figured out the directions and called Brittany back to

mind was haunted by the image of that villa;

pipe as thick as an arm crashing down, mixing with the rain, the cold, hard drops splattering on her face,