The Dog’s Birthday Betrayal

Lucas Hart didn’t leave his "wedding of the century" engagement for a mistress—he left it to celebrate a dog’s third birthday. He expected a humiliated heiress to crumble under the weight of a viral scandal; instead, he handed Laura Ellis the keys to his destruction. While Lucas played house with a ghost from his past, he forgot about the man lurking in her shadow: William Hayes, a rival titan who has spent years waiting for Lucas to make a single mistake. In a world where business is blood and loyalty is a currency, the ultimate irony isn't that Lucas lost his bride—it's that the dog he prioritized over her led to the very man who would dismantle his empire in a week.