Vanessa’s POVThe Blackwood mansion stood beautifully tall as always, it was surrounded by golden lamps casting their rays on the building. To most, it was intimidating, a kingdom with walls too high to see through, but to Vanessa, it was the prize. The place she had been excluded from for weeks, the place where Evelyn Carter, that little nobody from a greasy diner, now slept beneath the Blackwood’s roof.Not tonight.Tonight, Vanessa wasn’t coming as the discarded mistress, the forgotten desire, she was coming as the mother of Damian Blackwood’s heir.Her car glided up the circular driveway, tires screeching against the gravel, she adjusted her hair in the tinted window’s reflection, ensuring every curl was perfect, and making sure every line of makeup was sharp. The dress she’d chosen was deliberate: a crimson silk, with plunging neckline, and slit high up her thigh. Powerful, unforgettable, and impossible to ignore.And in her hand, tucked into a leather folio
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