Chapter 1

My boyfriend Jaden’s first love, Sasha, had returned from abroad.

I was in the middle of showing a client around at the real estate office when Sasha strutted in on her high heels. She stopped dead in front of me and threw a bank card straight at my face.

“There’s one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on that card. Leave Jaden! A cheap, working-class girl like you has no future with him!”

My face burned with humiliation. I clenched my fists tightly.

“Jaden is one in a million to me! He is the light of my life, a gift sent from heaven!”

“I will never, ever leave him!”

Then Sasha tossed down another seventy-five grand.

My breath caught. In an instant, I realized something truly magnificent!

I sneaked a peek at my contacts list. Beyond Jaden, saved as "One in a Million," there was Brandon, saved as "Pleasant Surprise," and Sean, saved as "Soulmate." My heart started racing!

Sure, each of them had their own perks and totally different personalities, but every single one of them had their own version of an annoying, saintly little "sister" lurking around!

“I’m sorry, Jaden. We’re really just not right for each other.”

Right in front of Sasha, I dialed Jaden, put him on speaker, and dumped him.

The call went dead with a series of beeps. Sasha and I held our breath, waiting for a dramatic reaction that never came.

“Wait, what?”

“You break up with him over something this huge, and he doesn’t even say a single word?”

Sasha’s face twisted into an ugly scowl. “Mia, it looks like you’re far less important to him than I thought. Did I just waste over two hundred grand on you?”

*Crap. Busted.*

Jaden didn’t actually care about me.

What I cared about, though, was his incredible talent for dropping massive stacks of cash!

After all, besides Jaden, where else would you find a filthy-rich heir who literally wept until he passed out at an open house just because he found out he and his girlfriend were going long-distance? I was the one who rushed him to the hospital, which was how we met and kicked off our relationship.

It was only after Sasha dumped him from overseas that Jaden officially got with me.

He moved me into his massive three-story villa and showered me with gold bars and luxury jewelry until my hands were full.

So honestly?

I never really cared that he couldn’t let go of Sasha.

Our birthdays happened to fall on the exact same day. Every year on October twenty-first, Jaden would fly abroad to spend it with his precious first love.

Except this year was different. Sasha had moved back to the States, and Jaden had asked me to move out of his villa.

Getting this payout from Sasha was basically pure bonus cash. I quickly composed myself and started feeding her the emotional validation she craved:

“I spent a thousand days and nights keeping him company while you were gone! Think about it—if it weren’t for me, some other billionaire heiress would’ve scooped him up by now. If that happened, what chance would you have had? That two hundred and twenty-five thousand was an absolute steal just to buy me out!”

Sasha’s expression shifted to a look of realization.

“So, can you promise you’ll never contact Jaden again?”

I nodded frantically. “I swear! I promise! You saw it yourself—I dumped him and he didn’t even flinch. All I have to do is block his number, and we’ll be total strangers forever—”

Just as I pulled out my phone to block him, Jaden’s name flashed across the screen.

Panicking, my finger slipped, and I accidentally hit accept.

Jaden’s slightly breathless voice came through the speaker:

“I just pulled up to your leasing office. Tell me where you want to go. Whatever you want, just say the word.”

“Sasha just got back and didn't have a place to crash yet. I only asked you to move out because I didn't want the two of you fighting. I already explained this. Don't ever bring up breaking up again.”

Hearing Jaden’s cool, authoritative tone, Sasha’s face darkened completely. She hissed through gritted teeth, “This is what you call being total strangers forever?”

I was completely dumbfounded.

How was I supposed to know?!

Sasha was back, completely single. Why was Jaden still fussing over me like this?

Remembering that the money was already mine, I set my jaw and dug my heels in.

“Forget it, Jaden. I made myself crystal clear. We are over.”