She was paid $50,000 to carry a billionaire couple's baby. Fifteen years later, their private jet crashed—and their will named her guardian of the daughter she didn't know was biologically hers.

At twenty-two, Cassia Morell was broke, desperate, and willing to sign papers she didn't fully understand. The fertility clinic called it surrogacy. The billionaire couple called it an arrangement. She called it survival—fifty thousand dollars to carry their child and walk away.

She never looked back. Until now.

When tech-pharma moguls Theron and Seraphine Armitage die in a private jet crash, their will contains an impossible clause: Cassia Morell is named contingency guardian of their fifteen-year-old daughter Aurelia. To claim guardianship, she must live at the estate, maintain Aurelia's "public obligations," and submit to quarterly board reviews.

Fail any condition, and custody reverts to Vivienne Armitage—the cold-eyed grandmother who sees Cassia as nothing more than "the rented womb."

But as Cassia moves into the mansion that raised Aurelia as a brand asset rather than a child, she begins to notice something unsettling. The girl's eyes. The shape of her face. Features too familiar to ignore.

Then she finds the documents buried in Theron's private study.

They didn't just use her womb. They stole her egg.

Aurelia isn't just the child Cassia carried. She's her biological daughter—and she has no idea.

Now Cassia faces an impossible choice: fight for guardianship and drag her daughter through a public war with a billion-dollar machine... or sign away everything to give Aurelia something the Armitages never could.

A childhood. A mother. A choice that's finally hers.

This is American Billionaire Tales—where fortune meets fate.

I'm Michael, and for the next hour, I'll take you inside a world where empires are built on secrets, children are raised as content, and the cost of motherhood is measured in billions.

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