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CHAPTER ONE

Sophia's POV"Get out."Two words. That was all it took for my entire life to faceplant into the dirt.I stood there, staring at the man I’d called my husband for three years, and for a second, I actually thought I’d misheard him.Because I was the one who just walked in on him. I was the one standing in the middle of our matrimonial bedroom watching his assistant scramble to pull a silk sheet over her stupid fake tits."Are you kidding me right now, Marcus?" my voice cracked, and I hated it.Marcus didn't even have the decency to look ashamed. He just sat up, leaning back against the headboard I’d picked out for our anniversary."You heard me, Sophia. I’m done. This marriage has been dead weight for a year, anyway," he said, sounding so casual as if he were ordering a coffee."Dead weight? You were inside her five minutes ago in our bed!""Lower your voice," he snapped. "You’re making a scene."I wanted to scream. I wanted to lung across the room and claw that smug look off his face,

CHAPTER TWO

Sophia's POVThe rain wasn't stopping. If anything, it got louder, mocking me with every heavy drop that hit the plastic roof of the bus stop.I stared at my phone's screen blankly. As though staring at it continuously was going to make a single dollar pop up.How was I supposed to even get a bus? I couldn't even buy a pack of gum, let alone a ticket out of this nightmare.My teeth were chattering so hard it actually started to hurt my jaw. I tried to pull my soaked sweater tighter around my chest, but it was useless.I was officially a statistic. A headline in the making. Discarded Vale Wife Found Frozen at Bus Stop.I couldn't even die with dignity.Suddenly, the wall of rain was pierced by two blinding white lights. A bus was approaching…..me?Maybe they'd be able to give a free ride if I begged? I just needed to wait for it to get close enough for me to yell.I squinted, holding my hand up to block the glare. Oh. It wasn't a bus. It was a sleek, black sedan that looked like it cos

CHAPTER THREE

Sophia's POVHoly fuckity fuck. There was no way you could call the Black estate a house. It was a whole fortress made of glass and steel, the whole building reeled of intimidation.Dominic’s driver took my cracked suitcase like it was a lump of dirt and disappeared into the shadows of the foyer. Dominic didn’t bother sticking around for a tour."A maid will show you to your room. Get some sleep. We start tomorrow," he said, already walking away while staring at his phone.Typical. I was just another line on his to-do list.I followed a silent woman in a crisp uniform up a staircase as I fought the urge to not stop and wow at every art piece I came across.She showed me to a room bigger than my entire first apartment, muttered something about the bathroom, and left.I sat on the edge of the bed, sinking deep into the plushness. The softness. Marcus's bed was a fucking rock compared to this. Perfection.I needed water. Or a drink. Or just to feel like I wasn't suffocating.I managed to

CHAPTER FOUR

POV: DamienI tossed the quarterly reports onto the center of the table. The sharp smack made the head of acquisitions flinch in his expensive suit."This is garbage," I said, leaning back in my chair. "You actually call this a projection?"The guy stammered, frantically wiping sweat off his forehead. He was terrified of me, and honestly, he should be.I ran the tech branch of the Black empire. I didn't get this seat by playing nice or holding hands with the board members."The algorithm failed to account for the market shift, Mr. Black," he squeaked out.I let out a dry, humorless laugh. "The algorithm failed because you gave it trash data."I didn't have the patience for incompetence. I didn't have the patience for much of anything these days."Fix it by Friday, or pack your desk," I told him.I stood up, signaling the brutal end of the meeting. Everyone scattered like roaches when the lights turn on.They couldn't get out of the room fast enough. It was always exactly like this.I

CHAPTER FIVE

Sophia's POVThe dress I was wearing cost more than the car I’d been forced to leave behind at the Vale estate.It was a deep, shimmering emerald silk that clung to every curve like a second skin. Dominic had picked it out himself, claiming it was the color of envy."Perfect for tonight," he’d said with that cold, calculating smile.I looked in the mirror of the Black guest suite and barely recognized the woman staring back. My hair was swept up in an elegant, messy bun, and my neck was draped in diamonds that felt like a beautiful, heavy leash.Tonight was the gala. The big debut.The Blacks were parading me in front of the entire city's elite. The "New Black Sister."Oh, please. We all knew what this was. I was a giant middle finger aimed directly at Marcus’s forehead.I walked down the grand staircase, my heels clicking against the marble. Dominic and Damien were waiting in the foyer.Dominic looked like a king in his tuxedo—perfect, polished, and terrifying. Damien, on the other h

CHAPTER SIX

Sophia's POVHis mouth was warm.That was the first stupid thing my brain registered. Not the three hundred people watching. Not Marcus standing two feet away looking like someone had detonated a bomb in his chest. Not Dominic somewhere behind me radiating the specific fury of a man whose plan had just been set on fire.Just that Damien's mouth was warm.Then my brain caught up and I pulled back.Damien let me. But his hands stayed on my waist and his eyes stayed on Marcus and the look on his face was the kind that ended conversations permanently.The room was completely silent. I could hear cameras. I could hear whispering. I could feel the math being done in real time by three hundred people and I was going to have to live with whatever answer they reached."We're leaving," Dominic said. Not a suggestion.The limo ride back was its own kind of disaster.Dominic looked at Damien. Damien looked out the window."Care to explain," Dominic said."He had his hand on her.""So you kissed h

CHAPTER SEVEN

Damien's POVI didn't sleep.Not because of the scandal or the forty thousand notifications or Dominic pacing his office until two in the morning rebuilding a strategy I had destroyed in four seconds. Those things I could work with. Those had solutions.I didn't sleep because of Sophia's face in the kitchen when the knowing hit her.Not crying. Just that expression underneath crying that people make when something is too big and their face gives up. I had seen that expression once before. In a mirror. The day I was six years old and understood that the packed bags and the locked door meant nobody was coming back.I got up at five and went to my office and pulled everything on the Vale family finances.Elijah had sent the court filing at midnight. I read through it twice and then called him.He picked up immediately which meant he hadn't slept either."The trust," I said. "How long has it been active.""Twenty six years," Elijah said. "Set up by Sophia's parents before she was born. St

CHAPTER EIGHT

Sophia's POVI found out about Zane's discovery the wrong way.I was walking past Damien's office at eight in the morning looking for coffee and the door wasn't fully closed and I heard my mother's name.I stopped.I shouldn't have listened. I know that. But when you hear your dead mother's name spoken in a room you weren't invited into, your feet stop moving on their own."The brake failure wasn't mechanical," Zane's voice. Flat and certain. "Someone cut the line. Clean cut, not wear. The original accident report buried it.""How deep," Damien said."Deep enough that it took me six years of digging to find it." A pause. "The report was filed by a Vale affiliated investigator. The same firm Victoria uses for background checks."Silence."She was nineteen," Damien said quietly."Yes.""They killed her parents and then sent Marcus to find her.""Yes."I put my hand flat against the wall.The hallway was very quiet. The estate hummed around me the way expensive buildings do, climate cont

CHAPTER NINE

Dominic's POVI had been awake since four in the morning.Not unusual for me. I functioned best in the hours before the city woke up, when everything was quiet and I could think without interruption. I had rebuilt the entire PR strategy by five, restructured the sister narrative by six, and had three calls with our legal team before seven.By the time Sophia and Damien walked into the dining room I had a plan.What I did not have was patience for the way my brother looked at her when she sat down.I filed it away. Later problem."The affair story has traction," I said. "Two more outlets picked it up overnight. By this evening it will be on every major platform." I looked at Sophia. "Marcus moved fast. Faster than I expected which means he had this prepared before the gala.""He baited Damien deliberately," Sophia said."Yes.""So he knew Damien would react.""He knew someone would react," I said. "He didn't necessarily know it would be Damien specifically. But he knew this house well

CHAPTER TEN

Sophia's POVBy noon I knew three things.The Vale family was broke in the specific way that only very rich people managed to be broke, everything tied up in appearances and debt and a Ponzi scheme held together by reputation and fear.Diana Black had been in contact with Victoria Vale for eight months, longer than any of us had been in this war.And Damien hadn't said a single unnecessary word since he came back to the table.That last one I kept noticing. Not because he was usually loud. He wasn't. But there was a difference between his regular quiet and this quiet and I could feel it across the table every time I looked up from the files.Zane left at ten to follow something he didn't explain.Dominic left at eleven on a call that made his jaw do the tight thing.Which left me and Damien and four hours worth of Vale financial records spread across the dining table and a pot of coffee that had gone cold somewhere around the third file."You should eat something," I said without look

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