Chapter 15: Family Meeting
The summons came on embossed cardstock, delivered by a courier who wouldn’t leave until Sienna signed for it. Your presence […]
The summons came on embossed cardstock, delivered by a courier who wouldn’t leave until Sienna signed for it. Your presence […]
The lawyers descended exactly one week after the scandal broke. Sienna sat in a conference room that cost more per
The photos hit the internet at 6:47 AM on a Tuesday. Sienna woke to her phone exploding—texts, calls, notifications piling
Sienna didn’t see Lucas for a week after that phone call. He didn’t respond to texts. Didn’t answer calls. His
Sienna didn’t hear from either brother for three days. Radio silence from Lucas was expected—she’d shattered his trust, humiliated him,
The first ultrasound wasn’t supposed to be this complicated. Sienna had scheduled it for a Wednesday afternoon—a time when Lucas
Sienna woke to sunlight streaming through her windows and the disorienting realization that she was in her own bed, fully
Lucas stopped answering his phone. Not all the time—he wasn’t that obvious. But enough that Sienna noticed the pattern. Missed
Damon Cross was everywhere. Not physically—though that would have been easier to deal with. Instead, he existed in the periphery
The Cross family estate was the kind of obscene wealth that made Sienna’s childhood look like a punchline. Sprawling gardens,