CHAPTER 7: I Warn You

ISABELLA

The sun reflected off the towering glass like it was trying to blind me. I tilted my head back slowly, the sheer height of the building swallowing the sky. It shimmered like a palace built for gods sharp edges, endless floors, secrets trapped behind tinted windows.

My throat tightened.

I’d always thought Damian owned only one company the one I used to visit, the one my father once walked me through like I belonged. But this… this wasn’t the same world. It felt like I’d stepped into someone else’s life. Someone ruthless.

A man with too many masks and too many secrets.

He’d fooled all of us.

“Are you going to stand there all day staring at the building?” Richard’s voice snapped me back to reality flat, cold, distant.

I turned to him, blinking like I’d just woken up. “Sorry,” I muttered.

He was already waiting beside a sleek, black bulletproof car. The kind of car you don’t ask questions about. The kind that drives power, and sometimes, death.

I slid inside without another word,