His Substitute Bride Became His Obsession
“You were somewhere else entirely.”
I looked down at what I’d drawn without fully realizing it, a dress with sharp, architectural lines, a bodice that curved like it had been carved rather than sewn. Something unfamiliar bloomed in my chest. Pride, maybe. Or the ghost of it, returning slowly, the way feeling comes back to a limb asleep too long.
“It’s good,” Damian said, stepping closer, studying the sketch with an attention that felt different from Adrian’s, less possessive, more genuinely curious. “You designed the Phoenix collection, didn’t you. Before Collins.”