GRACE'S POV
The wire transfer from Catherine hit my account the morning after I signed her paperwork—ten million dollars that made Elena's two million look like seed money instead of the serious investment it was. I sat in my Cannon Beach house staring at the balance on my phone screen, one hand pressed to my stomach where the twins were doing their morning gymnastics routine, and tried to process that I now had twelve million dollars and six months to build something that mattered.
Six months until the babies came. Six months to prove I was more than Carter Vaughn's victim, more than the woman who got bet on, more than a cautionary tale about trusting the wrong man. Six months to build GRACE into something real.
I started with the campaign because that's what Catherine wanted, what she
