In love with the enemy
He was the devil's son, and tonight, in this ballroom, he still wore the crown.
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Celine blinked, pulling herself back to the present. Ten years of planning, of scraping, of fueling her hatred with every sleepless night.
And here he was, the man who had ruined her, standing so close she could smell the faint trace of his cologne leather, sandalwood, and something darker, like smoke and sin.
He didn't recognize her. Of course he didn't. Celine Wolfe had died that night along with her old life; she had become a nobody, a waitress, a ghost. "Celine Voss" was the name on her forged ID tonight, a careful fabrication.