The Gala of Lies

The silence in Julian Thorne’s study was a physical weight, pressing against Elara’s ribs. On the mahogany desk, the merger contract lay open—a crisp, mocking invitation to her own erasure. One signature from her, the woman masquerading as Vivienne Vance, would legally bind the Vance estate to Julian’s firm, dismantling her father’s empire and, with it, her inher

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