Collateral Hearts: Chosen or Forgotten?

I was never supposed to be more than a distraction for Brendan Tate—the Manhattan billionaire haunted by the girl he let slip away. But the moment he pulled me from the shadows, his world and mine collided: secrets traded for safety, desire masquerading as control. I was supposed to play the perfect stand-in, just another story for New York’s rumor mill. Instead, I fell—hard—into a love that was always just out of reach, tangled in a rivalry older than either of us and a city that never forgives weakness. When Brendan traded me away for a billion-dollar deal, I learned what it means to be collateral in a war between legacies. But in the aftermath, as old wounds and new betrayals threaten to pull us apart, he comes back—begging for a second chance, swearing he wants me, not just the memory I resemble. If I surrender again, will I finally be chosen—or am I doomed to play second to his regrets forever?