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A well-known quip circulates through the elite circles in Westland: No one has ever snatched anything from the Kane Family's grasp, and conversely, whatever they wanted, they took by any means necessary. That night at the Manor Gala in Zura, a camera captured a scene that sent the room into an uproar. Elliot Kane, the legendary football icon, reached out and seized the slender wrist of the Eastland beauty in the crimson gown before dozens of political and business elites and international media. At that moment, the engagement ring of a family-arranged alliance still gleamed on her ring finger. Some whispered that he was a home-wrecker, throwing his weight around to bully the weak. More muttered that she was an ambitious social climber who had betrayed her betrothal to rise above her station. The blond man leaned in close, his voice low and sweeping with absolute dominion. "Their rules don't apply to us. From this moment on, you belong to me."