I was about to add my boyfriend's name to my property deed when my assistant called. My boyfriend, Ethan Grant, had handed my 10-million-follower account to his childhood sweetheart, Claire Dunn. The headline "10-Million-Follower TikTok Star Joy Joins Live Reality Show" shot to the top of the trending page. I called Ethan. As if it were the most reasonable thing in the world, he said, "Claire is a young woman trying to make it alone in this industry. We should help where we can." "So you used my account to pave the way for her?" I questioned him, and he went silent for a beat. "Joyce, Claire's brother is the CEO of Pinnacle Group. If he invests in my company, it will take us to the next level. "While the show is filming, stay somewhere else. Claire needs the house to keep her cover." I laughed. He had no idea that the Pinnacle Group CEO he was so desperate to impress—even at the cost of betraying me—was my own brother. When I first fell for Ethan, he was a broke nobody. Afraid he'd feel inferior, I deliberately hid my identity and used my connections and resources to pave the way for him. I helped him rise from an underling who lived at everyone else's mercy to the powerful general manager he was today. Everything I poured into him was repaid with a knife in the back. At that moment, every last bit of love I had left for him went cold. If he was determined to choose Claire, I would take back everything I had ever given him.

Three days before the wedding, my fiancé, Ambrose Langley, is so rough with me that I end up with a tear in my private area. I go to the hospital for stitches, and the doctor who walks in is Wayne Mendes. My ex-boyfriend. The one I haven't seen in three years. I walk out of the exam room and find my sister, Summer Jones, hanging on Ambrose's arm. She smiles up at him and calls him "Honey." My entire family demands I step aside for my pregnant sister. On my wedding day, they drag me onto the stage and frame me for cheating. Every guest in that hall points at me and calls me a homewrecker. They say I stole my sister's man and have no shame. Then the doors slam open. Wayne strides in with the light behind him. He takes my hand, and his voice cuts through the room. "My wife would never look twice at garbage like you."