NICHOLAS POV
I held a glass in one hand and my phone in the other. The headline read: "Stella, girlfriend to real estate billionaire James Hawthorne, found fooling around with rival real estate tycoon Nicholas Ford."
I smiled.
Of course they would twist it to their taste. The media loved scandals, and I loved feeding it to them—especially when it was all to my advantage.
I took a slow sip of the champagne, letting the bubbles tickle my throat as I stared at the image splashed across every tabloid site. It was blurry, taken from a distance, but the silhouettes were unmistakable. Stella. Me. That smug little moment of hers captured like art.
It was so beautiful how blogs could turn a coffee date into something so big and elaborate it would leave you speechless.
I tapped the picture, zo
