The Heiress They Tried to Bury

For three years, I poured every ounce of myself into Liam's tech dream, working multiple jobs to keep a roof over our heads.

Tonight was the night I'd finally tell him my own life-altering secret: I was Ava Vance, the long-lost, presumed-dead heiress to the colossal Sterling-Vance empire.

I believed in him, utterly.

But he didn't walk in alone.

He arrived with a stunning, polished woman named Chloe, arm-in-arm, and then dropped the bomb: she was his fiancée, and her father was his lead investor.

He looked at me, his eyes cold and dismissive.