The Disgraced Teacher's Ruthless Return

Ten years ago, Cameron Vinson destroyed my Wall Street career to build his empire, leaving me a disgraced schoolteacher. Now, he was back, paying for my father' s life-saving surgery to play the benevolent hero. But his fiancée, jealous of his attention, decided to reveal the truth to my father on his deathbed, killing him instantly with the shock.

"Emilia, look what you've done! You're hysterical!"

Cameron shouted, shoving me away from my father's cooling body while comforting the woman who had just murdered him.

Hailee had shown my father a video proving we were both framed, just to watch the light leave his eyes.

Yet, Cameron stood there protecting her, gaslighting me into believing I was the crazy one.

They thought I was still the helpless victim they could manipulate.

They thought my father' s death was just another loose end tied up.

But as the heart monitor flatlined, my phone buzzed with a message from a ghost of our shared past.

"I have enough evidence to bury Cameron Vinson. Do you need help?"

I looked at the monsters preening over my father's corpse.

I wiped my tears and typed back a single word: "Yes."

The time for grief was over. The time for a hostile takeover had begun.