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The Runaway Asset: Betraying My Billionaire Father
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The Runaway Asset: Betraying My Billionaire Father

I stood in a couture engagement dress that cost more than most people earn in a decade, playing the part of the perfect billionaire heiress. My mother adjusted my hair with cold fingers, reminding me not to slouch before the photographers arrived for the merger of the century. But a few feet away on the balcony, I heard my father’s true voice stripping away the romantic lie. He wasn’t talking about a wedding; he was discussing a corporate acquisition. "Elodie does what she is told," he told the Senator, his laugh dry and humorless. "She is the final asset needed to seal the port deal." To him, I wasn't a daughter or a bride; I was a bargaining chip, a piece of currency used to buy infrastructure contracts. My childhood friend, the man I was supposed to marry, was nothing more than the other side of a business transaction. The realization shattered the glass floor beneath me. I looked at my phone for a lifeline, but Alden, the only man who ever saw the real me, was a thousand miles away, silent and indifferent. I was being sold by my father and ignored by the man I loved, trapped in a life that felt like a beautifully decorated cage. How could they turn my entire existence into a line item on a balance sheet? The scent of expensive lilies in the suite suddenly smelled like a funeral parlor, marking the death of the girl who believed in loyalty. The nausea of betrayal was replaced by a cold, hard clarity. If I was just an asset to be traded, then it was time to change the game. I stepped out of the white silk, traded my diamonds for a hoodie, and vanished into the night. I didn't head for safety; I flew to the neon chaos of Las Vegas to find the man who buried my father’s darkest secrets. To win my freedom, I would have to gamble everything on a coin toss with the city’s most dangerous enforcer.
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Chapter 7

The Enforcer? Elodie repeated.

Sofia leaned in close, her lips brushing Elodie's ear.

Cassius Chaney. He works for the Randalls.

Sofia looked around nervously, as if saying his name might summon him.

He handles the problems that money cannot fix.

Elodie looked back down. Cassius Chaney.

The name unlocked a door in the back of her mind.

Flashback. Three years ago. New York.

Elodie was twenty. She was sneaking past her father's home office to get to the kitchen for a midnight snack. The heavy oak door was ajar.

She saw a young man standing opposite her father. He looked younger then, rougher around the edges, but the posture was identical. Shoulders back, spine like a steel rod.

Hazen was handing him a thick manila envelope.

Keep the Vegas problem quiet, Hazen had said.

The young man had taken the envelope. He turned to leave. He saw Elodie standing in the hallway, clutching a bag of pretzels.

He didn't say a word. He didn't apologize for being seen. He just winked at her. A cold, knowing wink. And walked past her.

Back in the present, Elodie gripped the railing.

It was him. The man her father paid to bury his secrets.

Her heart began to race. Not from fear, but from opportunity.

If Cassius Chaney handled Hazen's dirty work in Vegas, then Cassius Chaney knew about the trust fund. He might know about Joshuah.

Fate had just dropped the key to her freedom in her lap.

But he was dangerous. Sofia was terrified of him.

Elodie looked at the stairs leading down to the pit. She thought about Kade. She thought about being an "asset."

She made a choice.

I need to talk to him, Elodie said.

Sofia grabbed her arm. Are you crazy? He eats girls like you for breakfast.

I am not hungry, Elodie quips. The adrenaline was masking the fear.

She pulled her arm from Sofia's grip.

She walked toward the stairs. She checked her reflection in a glass pane on the wall. The sequins glittered. Her lipstick was red. She looked like a Vegas party girl.

Perfect camouflage.

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