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Divorced Before the Vows Ended

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"I watched you walk away from me in front of eight hundred people. Now I control your company, your money, and your reputation. The question is, what are you willing to do to get me back?" Iris Webb had a plan. Get married on a Saturday. Start her honeymoon on Sunday. Build a life with Grant Sullivan on Monday. That plan lasted nine minutes. Nine minutes into her marriage, Grant Sullivan stood up at the reception in front of eight hundred of New York's most powerful people and announced their wedding was a mistake. He called their relationship a business arrangement that had gone too far. He said he didn't love her. Then he walked out, leaving her standing in a two hundred thousand dollar wedding dress, alone and destroyed. The internet exploded. The photos went viral. Iris Webb became the girl every magazine called pathetic. The girl who wasn't enough to keep a billionaire interested past the ceremony. The girl who got dumped harder than anyone ever had. Her career as a corporate strategist ended before her marriage did. No company wanted the girl who got publicly humiliated by Grant Sullivan. She became unemployable, invisible, toxic. For six months, Iris disappeared. Grant Sullivan didn't expect to hear from her again. What he didn't expect was for her to come back as the anonymous investor who bought controlling shares in Sullivan Industries. What he didn't expect was to find out she had the power to strip away everything he built. What he absolutely didn't expect was for her to keep walking into his office, walking into board meetings, walking into his life, refusing to let him forget what he did. And what she kept hidden was something far more devastating than his company falling apart. Iris was pregnant. With his child. A secret she never intended to tell him. When Grant discovers the truth, everything changes. He wants his company back. He wants his reputation fixed. He wants Iris back. But Iris has learned something critical in the months he didn't fight for her: she doesn't need him to survive. She needs him to choose her. And in a battle between love and power, between redemption and revenge, someone is going to have to lose everything. The question is who.
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