SHE HIRED A STRANGER FROM A DATING APP TO STOP HER CLASSMATES FROM HUMILIATING HER—BUT WHEN THE BILLIONAIRE TOOK HER HAND, THE WHOLE REUNION TURNED INTO A NIGHT THEY WOULD NEVER FORGET
across the room like sparks in dry grass, you realized you had made a catastrophic miscalculation.
Valeria Cruz, who had mocked your shoes ten minutes earlier, looked as if the floor beneath her heels had tilted. Her glossy lips parted. Her fingers tightened around the stem of her champagne flute hard enough that you thought it might crack.
