Every Beat Led Me Back to You
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The year Kaelen Sterling loved me most, he walked away from his family's empire and eloped with me to Europe.
But on the day he collapsed from washing dishes in a cramped diner, coughing up blood, I took the three-million-dollar check from his mother.
I stood there and watched his family's security drag him onto a private helicopter.
He clung to the cabin door until his nails were ripped raw and his fingers bled, begging me not to leave him.
But I just threw the crumpled bills he’d earned into the sink.
I told him, "Don’t talk about a future when you can’t even afford a tube of paint."
Seven years later, at an elite East Coast charity gala, we met again. I begged him for money.
He agreed, on one condition: I had to be the live painter for his wedding.
He wanted me to witness his happily-ever-after.
I nodded without hesitation.
What he didn’t know was that I needed the cash to pay for a life.
And the clock was ticking down on a devastating secret I had spent the last seven years protecting...
But on the day he collapsed from washing dishes in a cramped diner, coughing up blood, I took the three-million-dollar check from his mother.
I stood there and watched his family's security drag him onto a private helicopter.
He clung to the cabin door until his nails were ripped raw and his fingers bled, begging me not to leave him.
But I just threw the crumpled bills he’d earned into the sink.
I told him, "Don’t talk about a future when you can’t even afford a tube of paint."
Seven years later, at an elite East Coast charity gala, we met again. I begged him for money.
He agreed, on one condition: I had to be the live painter for his wedding.
He wanted me to witness his happily-ever-after.
I nodded without hesitation.
What he didn’t know was that I needed the cash to pay for a life.
And the clock was ticking down on a devastating secret I had spent the last seven years protecting...


















































