That night, Miles came to Camille’s penthouse trying to apologize.
But every word out of his mouth only made things worse.
He called his mother “traditional.”
He said she was “under pressure.”
He insisted Camille should try to “smooth things over” so the wedding could continue peacefully.
Not once did he say what actually mattered.
Not once did he choose her.
Camille sat silently listening while Manhattan glowed behind the glass walls of her penthouse apartment.
And for the first time, she saw Miles clearly.
His silence in the salon wasn’t weakness for one moment.
It was who he truly was.
A man more afraid of upsetting his family than losing the woman he claimed to love.
“What I needed yesterday,” Camille finally said quietly, “was for you to stand beside me without hesitation.”
Miles looked away.
Because he knew he had failed.
When he left later that evening, Camille remained standing by the window long after the elevator doors closed.
Then she walked into her private office.
The version of herself Miles knew was carefully controlled.
Elegant.
Soft-spoken.
Reserved.
But there was another side of Camille Sterling had never bothered to understand.
Camille Kensington was the CEO of one of the most powerful investment firms in New York.
And at that exact moment, her company was preparing to finalize a merger deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars…
A deal that would save the Sterling family business from collapse.
Camille opened her laptop.
Then she made one quiet decision that changed everything.
She withdrew from the merger.
No warning.
No explanation.
No second chances.
By sunrise, panic had already begun spreading through the Sterling empire.
And by lunch, Miles was standing in her office realizing he had never truly known the woman he was about to marry.
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