The Heiress and the Blade

Synopsis

"Five million dollars. Keep tabs on Mia, and tell me the second she breaks down." Gideon pushed the check across the desk toward me, his eyes filled with calculation. I picked up the check, verified the amount three times, and slipped it into my bag. "Don't worry, Gideon. Last night Mia cried her eyes out in the bathroom over you. She even said she'd transfer that oceanfront villa under her name to you as a birthday gift." Gideon smiled with satisfaction. Walking out of the office, I pulled out my phone and hit save on the recording. Mia would indeed stop breathing. But not until three years from now, when Gideon would have her committed to a psychiatric hospital and killed by electroshock therapy. I looked at the balance in my account and dialed Mia's number. "Hello, Mia? Your husband just paid me five million to be his spy. How should we split this money?" Evelyn's POV My name is Evelyn. I'm a scholarship student sponsored by the billionaire Lancaster family, and Mia's personal assistant. To the outside world, I'm Mia's lapdog. I bite whoever she points at, with no dignity, driven