Plume & Page

Hired to Ruin the Billionaire, Chosen by His Son

The man paying me to ruin a billionaire has forgotten to mention the child.

Ellis Ward paid me forty thousand dollars to get inside Marcus Sterling’s home. I told myself I was finding justice for my sister. Then his eight-year-old son asked whether I was coming back tomorrow. I took the document anyway. Now Marcus knows who hired me, the job is gone, and an ordinary apology cannot repair what I did. To have any chance with the man I betrayed, I must return the money, face the consequences, and stop deciding what other people need. But can Marcus face what his own signature cost my sister—and can either of us learn to trust the other?