The Stand-In for His First Love

Romance14 chaptersOngoing

Chapter 1 Eight years—I carried his children, built his empire, and smiled through every lie. Today, my husband Viktor Ashford handed me divorce papers at his company gala, in front of four hundred guests, with his pregnant mistress hanging on his arm. "Sign it, Elara," he said, champagne in hand, like he was closing a business deal. "Camille is carrying my real heir. You were always just… the placeholder." The crowd gasped. Camera flashes erupted. My mother-in-law smirked from her seat like she'd been waiting eight years for this exact moment. Let me go back to the beginning. I met Viktor when he was nobody—a junior analyst drowning in student debt, sleeping in his car outside my father's restaurant. I was nineteen, waitressing double shifts, and he walked in soaking wet from the rain with eleven dollars to his name. I paid for his meal. Then the next one. Then his rent. When he pitched

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