DOMINIC I watched the press conference from my office. My assistant had set up a live feed on the monitor beside my desk and I sat there with my coffee going cold and watched my almost-ex-wife tell a room full of journalists about the best moment of her life. "We met in a bar," Seraphine said into the microphone, her voice warm and practiced, her smile doing exactly what it had been trained to do. "And it was love at first sight." I scoffed so hard I nearly choked on my own breath. Love at first sight. I watched her smile at the cameras. She was good at this. I had to give her that. She looked like exactly what she was claiming to be. The devoted wife of a powerful man, finally stepping into her rightful place beside him. The devoted wife who had been sleeping with Julian for six months while I was busy running the largest company in the country and trying not to get assassinated. Then the shot rang out. I was on my feet before I knew I had stood up. The feed disso
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