INHERITED SIN
"I need you to understand something, Kian, and I need you to actually hear it, the way I don't think you've been hearing anyone else who's tried to warn you off since you got here."
"I'm listening."
She looked back at him, and whatever careful professional distance she usually kept had thinned out almost entirely, replaced by something that looked, for the first time since he'd met her, genuinely afraid — not for herself, Kian realized slowly. For him.
"Some debts aren't about money," Priya said. "Yours is about a promise he made — and broke. And promises like that, in this family, don't get settled with labor, or loyalty, or years of service, the way Dario's letting you believe right now wh