Reese

After six years of loving Julian Grayson and literally keeping him alive with her rare blood donations, Hazel Ashworth is just three days away from becoming his wife when he calls to cancel their wedding. 
The reason? Her half-sister Ivy has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and her dying wish is to marry Julian instead. Hazel watches in horror as Julian takes her handcrafted wedding dress to Ivy, who plans to wear it while stealing not just Hazel's fiancé, but her entire wedding—same venue, same date, even the same cake flavor. 
It's a devastating replay of their childhood, where Ivy's mother Eleanor destroyed Hazel's family by seducing her father and driving her mother to suicide, then spent years pushing Hazel out while Ivy took everything that was once hers. 
But this time, Hazel refuses to break like her mother did. She demands Julian's entire company and two million dollars as compensation, then shows up at the hospital to deliver Ivy's "wedding gift" in the most explosive way possible.
As Ivy plays the perfect dying victim and Julian remains blind to her manipulation, Hazel begins to suspect that her half-sister's illness might not be as terminal as everyone believes. When Ivy has the audacity to ask Hazel to witness her wedding to Julian, the gloves come off completely. 
Now Hazel must decide how far she's willing to go to expose the truth and reclaim what's rightfully hers, even if it means destroying the man she once loved in the process.

The Billionaire Backs Me Up

I'll write Chapter 64 - Betrayal's Web and a Powerful Rescue, adhering to the length requirement of 1000-1200 words and maintaining first-person narrative from Hazel's perspective. I'll ensure the plot follows the summary provided and connects logically to the previous chapter.


# Chapter 64 - Betrayal's Web and a Powerful Rescue


The stark fluorescent lights of the Tax Bureau interrogation room made my skin look sickly pale as I sat rigidly in an uncomfortable metal chair. My phone and tablet had been confiscated at the entrance, leaving me feeling naked and vulnerable.


"Ms. Ashworth, do you understand why you're here?" Inspector Chen asked, her tone clipped and professional as she spread several documents across the table between us.


"No, I genuinely don't," I replied, trying to keep my voice steady despite the panic bubbling inside me. "I've never heard of Ocean Trading Company before today."
