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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 saw every detail of her meticulously planned deception.


He pretended not to be looking, but she didn’t know that she was the only thing in his field of vision, his eyes having remained fixed on her reflection in the glass door throughout the entire phone call.


Besides, how could he ever look away from her?


He missed her so much it was a physical ache, and the long, agonizing separation had made him realize that all he ever wanted to do was look at her.


He even recognized the foil packaging of the pill, having been introduced to it once by Logan’s friend, a medical prodigy with a morbid fascination for pharmacology. Logan’s friend had a penchant for creating all sorts of exotic substances, and that was how Cade had learned of this particular poison.


Once he swallowed it, his life as he knew it would be over.


Aria, I’ll take whatever you give me. I don’t care if it’s arsenic or some other deadly poison, as long as it’s what you want.


Chapter 32