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The Price of a Billion-Dollar Love

The Price of a Billion-Dollar Love

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The private jet' s hum was supposed to drown out the silence, but it only amplified the heavy dread in the cabin. Across the table, my husband, Ethan Vance, watched me with cold, unblinking eyes, his once-loved face a mask of cruelty. "Sign it, Chloe." His low, calm voice cut through the air. The document lay between us, a single sheet of paper that would transfer my half of our billion-dollar company to him-and to her, Scarlett Hayes, his long-lost ex, the ghost haunting my marriage. My hands trembled, but it wasn't just the document. Through the open jet door, his bodyguards held my sixteen-year-old sister, Lily, her face pale with terror, thousands of feet in the air. "Scarlett needs this," he' d said when I begged, "You were just holding her place, Chloe. It's time to give it back." His words were a physical blow, shattering illusions of the life we'd built. My love, my security, my entire world-all just a temporary placeholder. Watching Lily' s silent tears stream down her face, I knew he was using my deepest love as a weapon. My signature was a shaky scrawl, a testament to my broken spirit. "There. It's done. Now let her go." A flicker of satisfaction crossed his face. Then, the guards tightened their grip, and with a brutal shove, pushed my sister out the open door. Her scream tore away with the wind, leaving only a horror too profound to process. He had promised to let her go, and he had murdered her instead. In the ensuing darkness, as my world fractured, a terrible clarity sliced through the pain: I was never the love of his life; I was just the bandage for a wound he never wanted to heal. But as the jet descended, a defiant spark ignited in the ashes of my heart. I would survive. I would escape. And he would pay.

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Introduction

The private jet' s hum was supposed to drown out the silence, but it only amplified the heavy dread in the cabin.

Across the table, my husband, Ethan Vance, watched me with cold, unblinking eyes, his once-loved face a mask of cruelty.

"Sign it, Chloe." His low, calm voice cut through the air.

The document lay between us, a single sheet of paper that would transfer my half of our billion-dollar company to him-and to her, Scarlett Hayes, his long-lost ex, the ghost haunting my marriage.

My hands trembled, but it wasn't just the document.

Through the open jet door, his bodyguards held my sixteen-year-old sister, Lily, her face pale with terror, thousands of feet in the air.

"Scarlett needs this," he' d said when I begged, "You were just holding her place, Chloe. It's time to give it back."

His words were a physical blow, shattering illusions of the life we'd built.

My love, my security, my entire world-all just a temporary placeholder.

Watching Lily' s silent tears stream down her face, I knew he was using my deepest love as a weapon.

My signature was a shaky scrawl, a testament to my broken spirit.

"There. It's done. Now let her go."

A flicker of satisfaction crossed his face.

Then, the guards tightened their grip, and with a brutal shove, pushed my sister out the open door.

Her scream tore away with the wind, leaving only a horror too profound to process.

He had promised to let her go, and he had murdered her instead.

In the ensuing darkness, as my world fractured, a terrible clarity sliced through the pain: I was never the love of his life; I was just the bandage for a wound he never wanted to heal.

But as the jet descended, a defiant spark ignited in the ashes of my heart.

I would survive.

I would escape.

And he would pay.

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5 Chapter 4
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6 Chapter 5
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7 Chapter 6
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8 Chapter 7
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9 Chapter 8
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10 Chapter 9
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11 Chapter 10
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12 Chapter 11
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13 Chapter 12
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14 Chapter 13
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15 Chapter 14
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16 Chapter 15
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17 Chapter 16
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18 Chapter 17
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19 Chapter 18
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20 Chapter 19
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21 Chapter 20
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22 Chapter 21
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23 Chapter 22
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24 Chapter 23
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25 Chapter 24
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26 Chapter 25
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