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The Quiet Acquisition

She ghosted him under a fake name. Three years later, he bought her company.

Quinn Reyes built Vine + Verse into the boutique marketing agency every author wants representing their launch. She did it on caffeine, spite, and three hours of sleep a night. The morning of her biggest pitch she finds out a holding company quietly bought her firm at the parent level. The new CEO walks into her conference room and her stomach drops. Three years ago she met Hayes Caldwell at a gala in someone else's red dress, gave him a name that wasn't hers, and never showed up to brunch. She ghosted him under a fake name. Now he owns her company.