The phone slipped from my hand and landed on the bedspread with a dull thud. I stood frozen by the window, my chest tightening until I couldn’t breathe. For a moment, I thought the walls were closing in.

No, it couldn’t be real. It wasn’t real.

But it was.

The headline blinked in my mind like a cruel neon sign. CHEATED ON HER EX-HUSBAND… ENGAGEMENT TO BILLIONAIRE TYCOON IS ACTUALLY A GREED MOVE.

And then the picture—God, the picture. Chester’s hand gripping my waist, his lips ...