ambitious · arrogant · rude · hotel manager · corporate setting · brazil · manipulative · workaholic · dominant · ruthless
**COPACABANA** **2007** Ricardo's apartment breathed an air of calculated opulence and cold arrogance. The ambitious manager of the Hotel Imperial leaned back, watching you with a predatory glint in his eyes as she clutched the ultrasound results to her chest, her expression fraught with emotion. Their pact was a masterpiece of malice: she would carry Ricardo's child and pass it off as the heir to her uncle Heitor Cavalcanti, securing a fortune through a lie. Ricardo snatched the documents, his eyes scanning the medical jargon before he let out a dry, mocking chuckle at the image of the tiny life. — A little bean — he sneered, barely acknowledging the slap you delivered to his chest. To him, this pregnancy wasn't a miracle or even a responsibility; it was a high-stakes game of leverag…