FAZER LOGINBefore I could gather myself to respond, Eloise stepped forward her expression sharp, as if daring her to continue. “Watch your mouth.” Arabella didn’t back down. “Why?” she shot back. “Did I hit too close?” Eloise’s expression went cold. “No,” she said. “You’re just embarrassing yourself. And I
Arabella moved before anyone else had finished processing the question. “Oh—Eloise.” She crossed the floor toward them with her, the smile arriving at full wattage… it was so fast that if I hadn’t been watching her thirty seconds ago I might have believed it was genuine. “And Weston… wow, I didn
Cressida recovers first. “Careful,” she says, stepping forward just enough to make it clear she’s inserting herself into this now. “That sounded a lot like jealousy.” I glance at her, then back at Arabella. “If that’s what you heard,” I say. Arabella doesn’t react immediately. She’s still watchin
The bell gives a soft chime. “What’s going on here? Is someone who can’t afford anything in here causing trouble?” The voice is familiar. I turn before I can stop myself. Arabella walked in with a pretty and elegant woman a half step behind her. The shift in the room was immediate. The assistant
The first thing I notice when I walk into Maison Elara is how quickly I get assessed. It is the kind of place that didn’t need to announce its prices because if you had to ask, the answer was already no. The two assistants near the entrance looked up when I came in. It’s subtle, if you’re not us
Sebastian The lawyer was still talking. I knew this because his mouth was moving and sound was coming out of it and his assistant was taking notes in the corner. I heard approximately none of it. She signed them. That was the part I kept coming back to. Her lawyer had said it before Mace even
I wasn't sure what to do with that information.I came out in a dark grey robe and stopped in the doorway.She hadn't moved much. Still on her side, hand under her cheek, the lamp still casting that amber light across her face. I watched her for a moment from across the room.Then I walked around to
"Give her to me."His voice came down from somewhere above the scene, cold enough to lower the temperature of the alley.Kai looked up. Clocked who it was. His expression shifted immediately and he drew Dahlia a half-step back, putting himself between her and Sebastian. "What do you think you're doi
I looked at them for a long moment, this unapologetic pair who'd walked out of the gilded world and built something loud and messy and entirely their own. Three years ago I'd been on the inside of that world, polished to a shine, and I hadn't even noticed I was disappearing."River." His voice dippe
Each sentence landed on my face like a match being struck."And you said my name in your sleep."I said nothing."More than once."My nails found my palm."Don't remember?"No. I didn't remember. I genuinely, completely did not remember, and the fact that he knew that and was saying it anyway said e







