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I sold my body to my husband, Cade Sterling.
One hundred thousand dollars. That was his price for a night with me. The only thing keeping our son, Leo, alive.
My stepmother whispered lies in his ear, and he believed them. He forced another woman into our bed while I was forced onto an operating table.
"You're pregnant," the nurse said, her voice a sterile blade. "Mr. Sterling has requested a termination."
Then, I was forced to watch my son Leo, my only reason for living, leap from a cliff to save me from further torment.
He was gone.
My husband had murdered our first child, and now our second. There was nothing left to live for.
In the cold, scarlet water of the bathtub, I finally let go.
But as darkness claimed me, I didn't know the truth was a far more cruel and twisted thing than I could have ever imagined.
And that Cade Sterling, my tormentor, was about to pay a price far greater than money could ever cover.

His Ruinous Price

Cade’s authority in the household was second only to Mr. Sterling Sr., and the aggressive warning in his eyes was enough to ensure that no servant would dare alert Julian to his actions.


He openly strode through the house with his supposed sister-in-law slung over his shoulder and kicked open the door to his own bedroom.


Aria’s eyes swept across the room and immediately landed on a photograph placed on the bedside table.


It was a picture taken on her eighteenth birthday.


In the photo, a woman who looked exactly like her was nestled against his shoulder, grinning with pure, unadulterated joy, while he appeared faintly aloof, as he always did, yet the gaze he directed at her was brimming with profound fondness.


For some reason, she was inexplicably drawn to the photograph, and sliding off his shoulder, she walked cautiously toward the bedside table to study the woman’s identity. Who was this person? who was her perfect double?


Chapter 31