My Ex-wife is a Hidden Heiress!
I shook my head and stomped my boots on the concrete, the declaration solidifying inside me—I’m not a pawn, and she’ll crumble.
A memory pierced: unbidden, sharp as a knife: Dmitri, my lover, his promises of power in the shadows of Moscow, his betrayal when he sold me to my rivals. “You’re too hungry, Natasha,” he’d sneered, a blade at my throat, and I’d burst free, hands bloodied, his poison at the root of my skinflint loose. I clenched my jaw, then paused, flickering with fear—will Gregor give them to me, too? I swallowed the hurt, my hands clenching the table, the sound of Seryne’s oceans a faint drone from outside the window. Dmitri’s lesson was clear: Never trust anyone, but be the fir
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