Wiring Her Money Was His Habit

For six years, Madeline Frost built Orion Capital alongside Carter, the man she loved, her portfolios generating over fifty million in profit. Then Harper Montgomery arrives as the new Investment Manager, all quiet luxury and untouchable beauty, and Carter's attention shifts in a way Maddie cannot ignore.

When Maddie's mother is dying of pancreatic cancer, she begs Carter for the $150,000 needed for a last-resort experimental treatment. He promises to wire it at once. Instead, the money lands in Harper's account, and Maddie's mother dies before dawn. Carter calls it muscle memory, a simple mistake, while Harper wears the diamonds it bought and counsels Maddie not to make a scene.

At the cemetery, Harper arrives in scarlet and Carter in a tie of the same shade, and Maddie tears up her resignation as Head of Acquisitions. She has accepted an offer in New York, and she intends to build an empire of her own.