Eliana returned home exhausted. The apartment was quiet, but she could hear her nanny, Kimora, talking hushedly on the balcony.

“Mr. Bowman, the costs for the twins' summer camp are quite high... Miss Pierce only just started her job, I’m worried she—”

Eliana pushed the balcony door open. Kimora jumped, quickly hiding her phone.

“Kimora, I told you,” Eliana said firmly. “I am supporting this family now. Do not ask Jonathan for money, and do not report my financial status to him. I need to stand on my own feet.”

After settling the children, Eliana spent hours turning her room upside down. The ring. If she really had taken a valuable heirloom from ‘Preston,’ she needed to find it before he used it as leverage against her. But after searching every box and drawer, she found nothing.

The next morning, she walked into the Moran Group office, but the atmosphere was stifling. Her colleagues were whispering, their eyes darting toward her desk.

Lying on her workstation was a bright blue polyester jumpsuit. A janitor’s uniform.

“What is this?” Eliana asked, picking up the heavy fabric.

“An order from the CEO’s office,” a colleague whispered sympathetically. “Since the Blake project fell through, they’ve reassigned you. You’re to report to the top floor... to clean Mr. Moran’s private suite.”

Eliana’s blood boiled. A lead designer being forced into manual labor? This was a calculated humiliation.

“Do you have any idea how much that failed contract cost us, Eliana? Three hundred million!” Gabrielle’s voice arrived before she did. The director marched up in her high heels, her eyes gleaming with malice. “If you want to keep your job and pay off your debt to this company, you’d better start scrubbing. Mr. Moran is waiting.”

Eliana clutched the uniform, her knuckles white. She looked toward the elevators leading to the executive suite. She had come here for the truth about her past, and if she had to clean the CEO's office to stay, she would do it. But she had a feeling 'Mr. Moran' and 'Preston Archer' might have more in common than she realized.