“Exactly, otherwise why would the Brooks family disregard decades of ties and leverage thirty years of deals? Clearly, Daniel must have his own grievances.”
“I heard the Carter patriarch’s in the hospital—driven there by that shameless daughter.”
In a single day, my reputation was ruined. I became branded as nothing more than a call girl.
My phone filled with lewd messages from men inviting me out, and all who had once befriended me avoided me like the plague. Even when my parents went out to secure investments and partnerships, they were ridiculed and pointed at.
At last, I gave in and asked Daniel for a meeting. Instead, he invited me to an amusement park he’d spent a billion dollars building.
“This is for Chloe,” he said, lifting the pouting girl from the carousel. “She’s always been like a child. After we’re married, if you want to come, you’ll need Chloe’s permission.”
After ten years of dating, Daniel had spoken to me mostly of business. I once thought all men were simply that dull. But now, seeing him spend a fortune to build an amusement park just to please another girl, a bitter ache spread through my chest.