The Substitute Wife's Comeback
Three years ago, Sophie was James Ashford's temporary solution to a shareholders crisis. He needed a wife. She needed the money. They had a deal.
For six months, Sophie played the perfect wife. She wore the right dresses, smiled at the right events, and made his life look stable to investors. She was invisible the way he wanted her to be. Useful. Forgettable.
The moment the stock market recovered, James divorced her without blinking. He didn't even say goodbye. She got a check and a legal letter on the same day.
Now Sophie isn't the desperate woman she used to be.
She spent three years building something he could never break. She learned business in coffee shops and libraries. She made strategic investments. She made connections. She became indispensable to something other than James Ashford.
When she walks into the Ashford Holdings shareholders meeting as the lead investor in a hostile takeover, the room goes quiet. James sees her face and his entire world stops.
She's the woman he threw away. She's the woman who's about to take everything from him. And worst of all, he's just realized she was never supposed to be temporary.
Now James has to watch Sophie dismantle his empire piece by piece while he remembers exactly how much he underestimated her. And Sophie has to decide if crushing him is worth losing the one thing she never thought she'd want again.
His heart.
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