Chapter 2 - The Fifty Million Dollar Motive
I typed a message to Rowan.
“Why are you giving this to me?”
His reply was instant.
“Axton bankrupted my brother’s firm last year using illegal short-selling. I’ve been tracking him ever since. I wanted to destroy him, but I realized you hold the match.”
I frowned at the screen.
“What match?”
“Look at his company’s quarterly earnings. Then look at your grandfather’s trust.”
I opened my private banking portal.
My grandfather had left me a trust fund worth fifty million dollars.
But it came with an ironclad stipulation.
I could not access the principal until I turned thirty-five.
Unless I got married.
I looked at the financial reports Rowan had sent regarding Callaway Holdings.
Axton’s company wasn’t thriving.
It was drowning in secret debt.
He was weeks away from a catastrophic default.
Suddenly, the entire three-year relationship made sense.
Axton didn’t want a wife.
He wanted a bailout.
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And Mila—the sister I had protected my entire life—was willing to let him use me to get it.
As long as she got the Aspen house, the luxury lifestyle, and the man she secretly wanted.
