In love with the enemy
Adrian's father, Victor Kane, had seen to that destroying their empire with forged documents, whispered scandals, and debts that swallowed them whole.
Blood had been spilled in the process, or so the shadows also whispered.
Her mother had withered away under the weight of it all, her father left broken and forgotten in a cold grave. And Adrian? He had been there, complicit or at least complicit by blood, rising from the ashes of their downfall to claim even greater power.
Celine's grip tightened on the tray as she wove through the crowd, her heart a steady calculated anger.
She wasn't here to serve drinks forever. This was revenge. A step into the lion's den. She had spent months mapping the