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At 9:31 on a rain-soaked Tuesday night, I was on my knees in a $12 million Lake Forest mansion, scraping birthday cake off the marble with my bare hands while sixty rich strangers watched the billionaire mafia boss’s fiancée humiliate me. She thought I was just a broke delivery woman desperate enough to swallow anything—but when she insulted my sick mother and raised her hand to slap me again, she had no idea I had spent eleven years learning exactly how to put someone like her on the floor.
The woman I was supposed to marry threw a cup of steaming tea at a twenty-two-year-old maid in front of my entire family, then looked at me as if she expected me to punish the maid for making her angry. Vanessa Hale had spent three years convincing me she was strong, elegant, and worthy of carrying my family’s name, but in that dining room I saw something I could never unsee. Before anyone could tell me to calm down, I slipped the platinum engagement band from my finger and placed it on the marble table between us.