I watched him laugh as his friends humiliated me at the gala. They poured champagne on my dress, called me a gold digger, and whispered that I didn’t belong. Sebastian just stood there, smiling. What they didn’t know was that I owned the building they were standing in, and I was about to turn the night into my reckoning. But this didn’t start at the gala—it started years before.
My name is Emory Harrington, and my family is worth $47 billion. My father, Lawrence Harrington, built our empire from nothing, investing in hotels, real estate, tech—you name it, we own a piece. But money changes the way people treat you. When I was ten, my mother died in a car accident, and suddenly I…