The Heir She Claimed

Sloane Kirby has the foundation's best numbers and no husband, which is a problem, because the charter requires both. Sterling Heyes has the foundation and the name, and a diagnosis that ends his family's line. One year. One job. One marriage contract, red-penned by her, initialed by him. Then Sloane offers something that wasn't in the paperwork: she'll carry the child. The marriage stays a marriage until the birth. Sterling refuses. Then agrees. Then starts to break apart in the kitchen at two in the morning. They think the hard part is the clinic. It's the gala, where Sterling's cousin reads their contract into a microphone and calls it a purchase. Sterling is about to tell a room full of donors the truth. All of it.