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When Celine lost everything, it altered her focus by clearing away the distracting clutter that her avarice wrought until what remained were her priorities, well-defined and finite—her father, sister, and herself. Clinging to all she had left in the world, Celine had no illusions that she could safeguard her most precious people. Therefore, she needed immediate access to power to protect herself and her family. Her mom used to say the best way to take down a colossal power was to undermine it from within, meaning infiltrate and ingratiate, gather trust and power, and then turn on those who bestowed it. The fastest way to do this was to marry a billionaire.Celine was a phoenix rising from the ashes of her scorched barn, reborn and remade into a vessel of justice. Her first step in her quest for vengeance, catch herself a billionaire, which was why she sat on Sebastian’s desk, swinging her lovely bare leg. Trying to remember everything Kim had taught her about flirting.Down with the
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Sebastian placed the contract face up on the coffee table between them. “This is what you came up with? Do you think you are living in a K-drama?” Sebastian snorted.Celine looked at her manicured hand and said, “It’s perfect, and you know it.”Sebastian sat back and relaxed on the couch. “How is marrying you going to solve my problems?” Sebastian asked.“If you’re married to me, you can’t marry Grace.” Celine put her hand down and glanced across at Sebastian with a bored expression on her face.“Wow, Ms. Beaumont. Why didn’t I ever think of that oversimplified solution?”“Because you lack imagination. Mr. Gale.”Sebastian barked out a laugh and then said, “Please enlighten me.”“Marry me, then call a board meeting without your mother. Discredit Grace and present me as your wife. My selling points are my perfect conduct, discretion, and loyalty. I believe that is well documented, thanks to Phillip." Celine puffed out a little laugh at the irony."Since the marriage would have already
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Silk and sequence hugged her curves in a dazzling silhouette. She knew the dress was beautiful, but now that she was out in public, she wished she had selected something that blended into the crowd. She could feel the unwanted attention of lingering eyes like phantom caresses as she strained the slit in her floor-length dress, gliding around the dancefloor in Sebastian’s arms. Celine prayed she wouldn’t twist an ankle; it wasn’t a lack of agility on her part. She was a decent dancer. The concern was Sebastian. He was distracting her.It started in the backseat of the car on the way to their first event as a couple. He took one look at her and closed the gap between them. “You look amazing, wife.”, Sebastian said.Celine could smell whisky on his breath. She raised an eyebrow and wondered if he would be a problem. “I’m not your wife yet, Mr. Gale.”She reached for her seatbelt and fastened it. “Are you going to sit here?” He was inches from her in the center seat instead of the customa
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Sipping a cup of bitter coffee Celine walked down the hall to her mother’s room. She hated hospitals. They smelled like disinfectants and body odors. And they all had the same vinyl floors that no matter how much you washed them, they held onto dirt embedded in tiny scratches and crevices.This place was depressing. She wanted to take her mom home so she could be comfortable, but Mom insisted on staying here. She said she didn’t want to be a bother. We only had her on this earth for a few more weeks. How could she be a bother?"Cold Blue. Code Blue. Room 2114. All available staff. Cold Blue.", a speaker blared, startling her and scalding the back of her hand with hot coffee.People dressed in scrubs erupted from stairwells or around corners and ran past her. Realization bloomed and she began running. Room 2114, that was their room.She heard the alarms getting louder as she ran. She was going so fast that she had to grab the molding of the door to control her swing into the room where
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Two bodies twisted in ecstasy her husband thrusting into another woman on their bed. Bryson Tiller was singing in the background. “Pull up the skirt, get in the ride. Left hand is steerin’ the other is grippin’ your thigh.”This is what he has been doing when she needed him the most. This cannot be happening. Why? Why? Why? She ran to the guest bathroom in the hall and vomited until she was panting, her head hanging in the toilet. Then she stood washed her face and mouth and looked in the mirror. Anguish was etched into every atom. She was startled when her phone rang. It was her best friend, Kim. Automatically she picked up, “Hello.”“Honey, I heard. I’m so sorry. Are you okay? Of course, you’re not; stupid question. Where are you? I’m coming right over.”Celine sat heavily on the cool tile of their bathroom floor. Glancing around she said, “I’m at home.”“Is Phillip there?”Celine hesitated then responded in a monotone voice, “Yeah.”“Let me talk to him.”, Kim said and there was si
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The wine glass wobbled in her hand and a single red drop splashed onto their pristine white carpet in solidarity with the single tear that betrayed Celine and ran down her cheek. No longer able to keep her emotions at bay she asked, "How long have you been cheating?""I have never cheated on you.", Phillip said staring directly into Celine’s eyes. Celine’s eyebrows rose sharply, and she blinked heavily a few times."Pardon?", Celine asked surprised by his denial.I never cheated on you.” He repeated as if she was slow and hadn’t understood him. He pursed his lips. “It was just sex. Celine, I don't love anyone but you. Look, I am sorry you had to see this. Especially tonight of all nights, but I am a man with needs.", he said nodding as if he was a third person agreeing with himself.Heat rose swiftly like a torrent throughout her body and fueled her next words. “A man with needs? What more do you need? We have sex every day. Have I ever told you no?” Leaning forward she continued. “I h
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For generations, every summer, wealthy families from New York City invaded New Jersey and overran the eleven towns that made up the Hamptons. Popular for its beautiful beaches and perfect weather. These Hamptonites were like an invasive species that had no natural predators and crowded out and took over everything. The actual residents of the Hamptons, the native species, decided let’s make lemonade out of lemons. Businesses sprouted everywhere to accommodate the Hamptonites’ every whim. Anyone can tolerate just about anything for two months.The truth was, the Hamptonites and the Townies disliked each other but they had been using each other for so many generations they became dependent. Like a dysfunctional symbiotic relationship. And it turned out they sometimes had common interests that united them. Like their mutual hatred of The Billionaires Club.The Billionaire’s Club was exclusive and had only two thousand members worldwide. The entry f*e? Be a billionaire. Members of the B-Cl
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Tension summed up the mood in the conference room. Even the way they were seated was adversarial. She and her lawyer owned the real estate of one side of the conference table and Phillip and his attorneys lay claim to the other side. Celine thought it was childish, but so were the men in the room with her.To her left was the projection of a PowerPoint presentation stating Bloombard v. Bloombard. This was what her marriage amounted to now, how sad. She met Phillip’s eyes. He was seated across from her. It was the first time she had seen Phillip since the night her mother died, and since she entered the room, he hadn’t taken his eyes off her. He looked how he always looked, disinterested.They were meeting to discuss the divorce settlement. She dreaded this meeting. She heard when there were hundreds of millions of dollars involved negotiations became bloody. She had no interest in fighting with Phillip and had a plan. A plan she hoped not to use because there was still time to stop thi
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Silk and sequence hugged her curves in a dazzling silhouette. She knew the dress was beautiful, but now that she was out in public, she wished she had selected something that blended into the crowd. She could feel the unwanted attention of lingering eyes like phantom caresses as she strained the slit in her floor-length dress, gliding around the dancefloor in Sebastian’s arms. Celine prayed she wouldn’t twist an ankle; it wasn’t a lack of agility on her part. She was a decent dancer. The concern was Sebastian. He was distracting her.It started in the backseat of the car on the way to their first event as a couple. He took one look at her and closed the gap between them. “You look amazing, wife.”, Sebastian said.Celine could smell whisky on his breath. She raised an eyebrow and wondered if he would be a problem. “I’m not your wife yet, Mr. Gale.”She reached for her seatbelt and fastened it. “Are you going to sit here?” He was inches from her in the center seat instead of the customa
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Sebastian placed the contract face up on the coffee table between them. “This is what you came up with? Do you think you are living in a K-drama?” Sebastian snorted.Celine looked at her manicured hand and said, “It’s perfect, and you know it.”Sebastian sat back and relaxed on the couch. “How is marrying you going to solve my problems?” Sebastian asked.“If you’re married to me, you can’t marry Grace.” Celine put her hand down and glanced across at Sebastian with a bored expression on her face.“Wow, Ms. Beaumont. Why didn’t I ever think of that oversimplified solution?”“Because you lack imagination. Mr. Gale.”Sebastian barked out a laugh and then said, “Please enlighten me.”“Marry me, then call a board meeting without your mother. Discredit Grace and present me as your wife. My selling points are my perfect conduct, discretion, and loyalty. I believe that is well documented, thanks to Phillip." Celine puffed out a little laugh at the irony."Since the marriage would have already
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When Celine lost everything, it altered her focus by clearing away the distracting clutter that her avarice wrought until what remained were her priorities, well-defined and finite—her father, sister, and herself. Clinging to all she had left in the world, Celine had no illusions that she could safeguard her most precious people. Therefore, she needed immediate access to power to protect herself and her family. Her mom used to say the best way to take down a colossal power was to undermine it from within, meaning infiltrate and ingratiate, gather trust and power, and then turn on those who bestowed it. The fastest way to do this was to marry a billionaire.Celine was a phoenix rising from the ashes of her scorched barn, reborn and remade into a vessel of justice. Her first step in her quest for vengeance, catch herself a billionaire, which was why she sat on Sebastian’s desk, swinging her lovely bare leg. Trying to remember everything Kim had taught her about flirting.Down with the
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Paper covered Celine’s Desk like a coat of failures—bankruptcy documents, court documents, insurance documents, police reports, bills, bank statements, repossession notices, and loan documents. Most of them had giant red letters that said overdue, in arrears, and collections.At least her medical bills had not been added to the sizeable debt pile. While Celine lay convalescing, Collette had allowed Sebastian to take care of Celine’s medical bills, and after Celine mulled it over, she agreed.He also offered to rebuild the stables and arena, and she might have taken that money too, but it would not have solved their problems in time. The Beaumont family was so deep into debt that Carly from Smith, Carson & Associates Legal Firm recommended liquidating their assets and paying everything back. By assets, she meant everything they owned: land and home. They would have nowhere to live and no way to earn an income.Her father blamed himself; if he had been transparent and hadn’t taken those
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Smiling reassuringly at Celine, Ethan took the empty glass of water, set it down, and then turned in his seat to face Sebastian. “My name is Ethan Sommer. You must be Sebastian.” Dismissing Sebastian, Ethan turned toward Celine, a gentle smile lighting up his eyes. “Better?” Ethan asked.Celine nodded, grateful someone in this insane asylum was staying levelheaded. She, too, was trying to stay calm, and she took slow, shallow breaths. She didn’t want to start coughing again, but the tension in the room made her anxious, making it difficult to control her breathing.“Celine, we are going to take this outside so you can calm down, okay?” Ethan said and handed her the call button in case she needed help.He gave some kind of look at Collette, who sighed heavily. “He’s right, let’s take it outside.” Ethan and Collette walked outside leaving Sebastian standing there looking down at her.Sebastian reclaimed his seat next to Celine. Having him this close to her made her fingers twitch to tou
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Celine was awake thinking when Collette came in with her cheery Mary Poppins voice. “Good morning.”, she sang, and Celine gritted her teeth. Instead of answering she closed her eyes. People went away if they thought she was sleeping.“Time to wake up, sleepy head.” Celine heard her bustling around the room, tidying up. “It’s so gloomy in here, no wonder you sleep all the time.”, Collette twittered like a happy little bird. Celine fantasized about finding a rock and throwing it at her. All that would be left was a puff of feathers littering the air.Suddenly, there was light glaring behind her eyelids, ruining her self-indulgent ambiance of depressive despair. Collette had drawn the curtains, that traitorous little harpy.“You’re going to have a visitor today.”, Collette chirped. “Look I got you some flowers. Aren’t they pretty? Here smell.”, She practically stuck the bouquet in Celine’s face who was lying on her stomach so the burns on her back could heal properly, and she had an oxyge
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Beaumont Equestrian Center spent a lot of money on a fire system that was tested and maintained several times a year, but the one, and only time they needed to use the system, the fire raged undeterred. Where were the wet sprinklers and the alarm? Why hadn't the fire triggered anything? Was the system defective? Celine realized she was going to have to turn the sprinklers on manually. There was a lever on the side of the building, where she could turn the sprinklers on and hopefully put out the fire.Coughing and gasping from the smoke, Celine ran the length of the stables. The beam of her flashlight bounced across the ground until she found what she was looking for, the manual release. All she needed to do was pull the lever. Where was the lever? Did she have it wrong? No, she was positive this was the place, but there was no lever. Looking closer, she saw the lever had been torn off. What the hell was going on? Had someone accidentally done this and not reported it, or was this int
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Turning onto the dirt road to her house, Celine’s head was full of her date with Ethan, and her feelings about Sebastian. She resented having to “move on”. That’s how it felt, she guessed, to be the one who didn’t end the relationship. Sebastian had moved on, but she was stuck still loving him. Wasn’t that the entire reason she was, “Getting out there?”, to snap her out of her lovesick state?“Stupid lying asshat.”, Celine yelled and hit her steering wheel. She didn’t want to move one. She just wanted Sebastian. Hot mournful tears rolled down her cheeks, and the dirt road blurred. Why did he do this to her? He lied to her, and now she had to live life without him. “I hate him.”, she sobbed.Turning the bend, she saw her house and she accelerated planning to hit the brakes hard at the last minute in a satisfying act of pointless violence. At the last second, she saw a car parked in the road, blocking the way and she screamed and slammed her foot down hard on the brakes. Her body rocked
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This time when he asked her out, she said yes, and even though she wasn’t excited about her date, she hoped when the time came, she would be. His name was Ethan. He was a few years older than she was and already had a healthy equine veterinarian practice. Ethan had brown hair with adorable curls that begged to be pulled, and big blue eyes that made her think of tropical waters or summer skies. He was tall, very tall, standing at six feet four inches and he had the kind of body earned through hands-on labor and not at a gym.Everyone thought they were the perfect match. Collette said if she wasn’t in the middle of a push-and-pull love affair with Dr. Gururaj she would snap him right up. And they were right, Ethan was divine, and she should be swooning at his feet and thinking about kissing his, pouty bottom-heavy full lips. Not psyching herself up to go on a date with him.In her heart of hearts, she still belonged to Sebastian, but that was not going to happen. Kim in her infinite wisd
