The Billionaire's Retainer

For ten years, Mia has played the devoted girlfriend to Ethan Sterling, one of New York's most powerful billionaires. She tolerates his Instagram models, drives them to clinics, buries his scandals, and smiles through every humiliation. Their elite circle believes she has lost all self-respect, but they do not know that she secretly hired Chloe Thorne to catch his eye, or how generously Ethan compensates her whenever guilt over his cheating takes hold. Medical bills, PR crises, jewelry and designer bags have quietly built her a nine-figure fortune and properties around the world.

When Ethan proposes to Chloe and moves her into the old estate, the one place his trauma had sealed shut, Mia watches from her Bel Air mansion. The heirloom diamond necklace meant for the true matriarch passes to another woman, and Ethan's touch lingers only until he notices the faint lines at the corner of her eye. After a decade of calculated devotion, Mia's retirement is finally within reach, if she can walk away from the only man who ever needed her.