Chapter 1

To scrape together the money for my sister’s treatment, I became Vivian Grant’s contracted lover for three years.

For three years, I came whenever she called and threw away every last shred of dignity.

I thought that as long as I was obedient enough and knew my place, I would eventually warm her heart.

Until that charity gala, when I heard her chatting with her best friend, her voice full of contempt.

“Liam Reed?”

“He’s just a little toy I keep around with money, nothing more. He’s very obedient. Give him some cash and he’ll go away.”

“The Sullivan family can help me secure the land in South Bay. Next month, I’ll get engaged to Ethan Sullivan, and when the time comes, I’ll kick Liam out.”

At that moment, the last bit of love in my heart went out completely.

In front of a room full of elites, I smashed the million-dollar watch she had just bought for me back into her arms, then walked into the pouring rain without looking back.

A year later, I became a rising star in the business world, holding a project worth hundreds of billions, with admirers lined up all the way to France.

But that once-arrogant heiress of New York’s elite knelt outside my door on a stormy night, soaked to the bone, crying in a hoarse voice.

“Liam, I was wrong. Please, look back at me…”

I looked at her through the floor-to-ceiling window and calmly instructed my assistant, “Call the police. Someone is harassing me.”