A GIRL NAMED NOVA.
A woman who would challenge Frederick at every turn, who would fight him for control of Theodore Group.
And I realized — I wasn’t sure I wanted to be the girl standing by his side while someone like her loomed in his life. I had fallen for Frederick’s quiet strength, his rare moments of vulnerability, his kind, calculating mind. But what if Mira’s arrival broke him in ways I couldn’t mend? What if his past — Isabella, Mira, the expectations of his family — crushed the fragile bond we had begun to build?
I pressed my hands against my chest, trying to slow the frantic beat of my heart. “Nova,” I whispered to myself, “what are you thinking? You’ve never believed in slow things… and now your hea