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Eleven minutes after my husband drove me home from femur surgery, my mother-in-law kicked one of my crutches out from under me. While I scr:eamed in agony, she and my husband dragged me into the garage, dumped me on the freezing concrete, locked the heavy door, and withheld my pain medication. They assumed the suffering would eventually break me and force me to sign. But they had completely forgotten about a secret hidden in the far corner of the garage... and I began crawling toward it.
"You and that unborn parasite are worth nothing to me!" Julian screamed, ripping my diamond necklace away and publicly humiliating me on our company’s anniversary stage. As the elite crowd gasped, I adjusted my soaked silk gown with icy poise. I calmly walked up to the private chairman standing by the VIP exit and murmured my father’s classified syndicate code. In less than sixty seconds, Julian went from a multi-billionaire to a broke, ruined man with a nationwide warrant on his head.