A Crown of Ashes
And who was the other half stuck with?
“Who’s the other idiot?” she asked, her voice tight, like it might snap.
Roman’s mouth quirked, not quite grinning.
“That’d be me.”
It landed like a fist to her gut. She stared at him—this smooth-talking climber who’d kissed Dorian’s boots while she’d scraped by on cheap noodles and cheaper dreams. Fury flared, hot and ugly, but before she could tell him to choke on it, a black Rolls-Royce purred up the path, sleek as sin. The window rolled down, and there she was—Vivienne Ashford, Dorian’s widow, Sienna’s stepmother, blonde hair piled up like royalty, wrapped in fur despite the wet.
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