Six years]? ago, Reed Carlisle, t;\he secre-t po @wer behind A.pe[ .+x Group and k?]$now=)n a\.s M#;r.;= Big, w; as@ amb_-ushed and poi[^son( ,ed at Sai]$)nt La?urent Hote. l. In a m
*is ta.k en memor$ y, he believed Selen ;(a. Voss was the woman who saved.? hi#m^(;, so he- quietly s/ /upported ;her career for yea rs.
 But when Selena f$_`ina!+#,lly rose t
o fame.`, she crue//lly*_ dumped Reed!- and mo-ck,ed !him+[ as no()$)thing mo =re than _#,a low^ly valet park[: e\r_@+.
O\=n . the s/a=me night,` Re ]/ed rescued Vera Monroe and her y.oung daughter, Lia Monroe, from ;Damian Thorne’-?s forced ma--rriage^+] scheme. To +%avoid being t r.=-apped by the ?Th# (orne] f_amil/]y,? Vera^` i@\mpulsive]ly proposed m\:`]arriage(;]+., and Reed accepte@]d@` . As their fa=(ke marria\==ge slowl$#:y turned real, Reed protected Vera and Lia ), in secr)_+et, using Apex’.`)s ?` vast re so _)urces  to crush Thor
ne’s -$a*(ttacks,
 exp,ose Sele=` na’s! lies, a#\nd h$el p Vera fi ght`. ba)ck i:n *th?e fashion wo!rld.
As the truth,: unfol;.ded ;, Reed discov[e`re@]d that th%e real wom#:;an wh@($o /*saved :@him [six years ago was( V =era ,all along. I%n=\ the e=nd, Damian a(^(nd Selen$
]a *were[- bro.*ught down)@^\,) _ @ Reed forma$lly 
prop_\osed to Vera, and t$*he *`f*`a[mily,/
of three finally found /their h[appy *(e
/nd ^ ing.