Escaping The Ruthless Billionaire's Gilded Cage

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When Elle handed her resignation letter to the ruthless billionaire Cyrus Vanderbilt III, she calmly told him she was getting married. Her real goal was to completely escape his control and protect the secret baby growing in her womb. She entered a strictly professional fake marriage with a struggling architect named Jan to pay off her dying mother's massive hospital bills. But Cyrus refused to let her go, ordering his security team to dig into her new fiancé's background to destroy him. The truth Cyrus uncovered was a sick twist of fate: Jan was actually Cyrus's own illegitimate half-brother. To punish Elle, Cyrus weaponized his immense wealth and awarded Jan a ten-million-dollar foundation project. It was a gilded trap designed to trigger a brutal family audit that would ruin Jan's life and lock Elle away forever. Cyrus even cornered her in his penthouse, his fingers digging dangerously into her jaw. "If you walk out that door, I will make sure you never work in Manhattan again. You will starve." Elle felt a suffocating wave of rage and injustice. Their past was just a transaction, and she had already paid her dues. Why couldn't this tyrannical monster just let her go? Why did he demand absolute ownership of her future and her unborn child? When Cyrus's assistant delivered a hundred-page contract demanding Elle submit to him for life, she didn't cry or beg. She looked the assistant dead in the eyes and ripped the death sentence in half. "Tell Cyrus I will see him in hell."