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Sienna Marlowe inherited more than a struggling architecture firm when her father died. She inherited his hatred for the Cross name. Three years ago, Cross Holdings swallowed Solomon Marlowe's biggest contract out from under him in a deal so cutthroat it broke him, in more ways than one. Now the city's most coveted project, the restoration of the historic Whitmore Theater, has come up for bid, and Sienna intends to win it in her father's name. She does not expect her only real competition to be Damian Cross, the son of the man who ruined her father, and the new face of the empire she has spent three years despising from a distance. When the Landmark Preservation Committee announces that neither firm qualifies alone and forces the two of them into an uneasy joint venture, Sienna is left with an impossible choice: walk away from the project of a lifetime, or share a drafting table with the enemy. Damian has his own reasons for wanting the Whitmore. He is trying to build something his father cannot touch, and he needs Sienna's talent, and her family name, to do it. What he does not expect is how hard it becomes to remember why he is supposed to dislike her. As deadlines tighten and old wounds surface, the two of them are forced to work side by side under the theater's crumbling dome, trading insults that grow softer, and glances that linger longer than either of them intends. But some foundations were built to keep people out, not bring people together, and the truth about what really happened three years ago is about to test whether anything they are building can survive it.
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RIVAL FOUNDATIONS The Hearing Opens
The Landmark Preservation Committee's review opened on a Thursday, in a hearing room considerably less friendly than the ballroom of the gala had been, all fluorescent lighting and folding chairs and a long table at the front where Eleanor Pierce sat flanked by two committee members Sienna had never met, both of them lawyers by trade, both of them looking at the assembled parties with the careful neutrality of people who had already decided this was going to be an unpleasant few weeks.Sienna sat beside Marcus, a folder of her own documentation squared in front of her, and watched Damian take his seat across the aisle with a legal team of four behind him, Nadia included, all of them dressed like they'd come from a funeral instead of a hearing. He caught her eye once, briefly, before the proceedings started, and something passed between them that wasn't quite reassurance, because neither of them had anything reassuring to offer the other, but wasn't quite despair either."This review e
Huling Na-update : 2026-09-10RIVAL FOUNDATIONS What the Review Might Find
The email arrived on a Monday morning, forwarded from Eleanor Pierce's office with a subject line that gave Sienna no warning at all about what it contained: URGENT: WHITMORE PROJECT REVIEW REQUEST.She read it standing at her desk, the same way she'd read the original bid notice three months earlier, and felt the floor shift under her in a way that had nothing to do with the loft's slightly uneven hardwood.The Landmark Preservation Committee has received a formal complaint alleging financial irregularities in the original riverfront development deal between Cross Holdings and Marlowe Design Studio, dated three years prior. The complaint suggests these irregularities may be relevant to Cross Holdings' fitness to serve as a partner on a publicly funded restoration project, and requests a formal review before the Whitmore restoration proceeds further. The Committee is obligated to investigate this complaint and will be pausing active work on the joint venture pending review.Sienna cal
Huling Na-update : 2026-09-10RIVAL FOUNDATIONS The Preservation Gala
Eleanor Pierce's preservation gala was held at the Ashford Historical Society, a converted mansion downtown with the kind of ballroom that made Sienna acutely aware of the difference between her closet and the closets of everyone else likely to be in attendance. Priya had solved the problem by loaning her a dress she swore she'd only worn once, and Sienna stood in front of the loft's single decent mirror that evening feeling like a woman about to walk into a role she hadn't fully rehearsed."You look like you're about to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court," Priya said, adjusting the dress's shoulder. "Which, considering the company, might not be far off."The gala was, officially, a fundraiser for the preservation committee's broader work across the city. Unofficially, everyone in Ashford's civic and business circles understood it as the public debut of the Whitmore joint venture, the first time Marlowe Design and Cross Holdings would appear together, as partners, in front of
Huling Na-update : 2026-09-09RIVAL FOUNDATIONS The Stairwell
The storm rolled in faster than the forecast had promised, which Sienna would later think was exactly the kind of detail that belonged in a story like this one, the kind her father used to tell about buildings that seemed to have opinions about the people working on them.They were three hours into a site inspection of the Whitmore's upper mezzanine when the first crack of thunder rattled the old windows hard enough that Devon nearly dropped his tablet. Foster's team had already cleared out for the day, citing the forecast, but Sienna and Damian had stayed behind to walk the scaffolding one more time, checking measurements against the restoration plans before the next phase of work began, and by the time they realized how bad the storm had actually gotten, the building's old wiring had already flickered twice in warning."We should head down," Damian said, as the lights flickered a third time and stayed out for a long, uncertain second before stuttering back on.They were halfway down
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