Samantha's POVI had been planning this announcement for three weeks.The party was in ten days, which was fast approaching, but it wasn't impossible when you knew the right people.The place.The lighting.The guest list.The dress.When there's money, things move quickly.It all started the night of the family dinner.I sat at that table and watched Mr. Hayes look at his son with pain in his eyes, and I understood something that I don't think Ethan understood yet.The old man's patience was not unlimited.And the company, which Ethan had always considered such a secure birthright that it required no maintenance, was quietly becoming conditional on Bella.I drove home after that dinner, my hands perfectly steady on the steering wheel and my mind racing.The way it always worked when I identified a problem that I had to solve before the problem identified me.The problem was simple.Ethan was falling apart.She had torn up the photograph because she needed him to stop looking at it.I
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