EMBER PATEL People think I betrayed Alexander Knight. They think I ran into the arms of his enemy, kissed him behind closed doors, and walked away like nothing happened. But they don’t know the truth. They don’t know what I was forced to do… or who I was protecting. I was adopted into a world where power was everything—where love was used like a weapon and secrets were more valuable than blood. Alexander was my anchor in that world. Cold, quiet, careful—but he saw something in me no one else did. He gave me a place. A future. A promise. Then I broke it. Now I’m back in the same city I left behind, with scars I can’t hide and eyes watching me from every corner. The Knight brothers want answers. Alexander wants revenge. But there are others—people like Tatiana Vargas—who would rather see me dead than let the truth come out. I don’t blame them. Some things should stay buried. But when old love meets fresh danger, nothing stays clean. And the more I try to stay out of Alexander’s life, the more fate throws me back into his path. He doesn’t trust me anymore. Maybe he shouldn’t. But what he doesn’t know is that I never stopped loving him.