Ronan's "apology gift" arrived at the estate the following afternoon.
It was a custom jewelry set worth seven figures.
Without so much as looking at it, I told the nanny to toss it into a corner of the storage room.
I didn't bring up the $40 million again, and I didn't fight with Ronan. He seemed to read my silence as giving up, and started flaunting Scarlett more openly than ever.
Overnight, Scarlett's stock in Silvercrest shot up. With the Sinclair Group's money behind her, she turned into fashion's newest darling. Social media was wall-to-wall people mocking me. None of it touched me. Sure, back when Ronan was chasing me, he'd knelt in the rain outside the gates of the Lowell estate. Now he was running the same routine for somebody else.
I put him out of my mind and devoted all my
