Nova didn’t know a simple email could undo her.
But there it was.
Subject: Invitation - Cassian Blackthorne Estate Gala
From: Blackthorne Holdings
Time: Next Saturday, 7 PM
Dress Code: Formal
Personal note:
Liam, it’s time. Bring her.
She reread it five times. Not “Bring your fiancée.” Not “Bring your daughter.”
Just “Bring her.”
Nova leaned against the kitchen counter, her heart pounding like thunder in her chest. Liam had been in back-to-back meetings all morning. The estate gala? She hadn’t heard that name in over a year.
Not since he walked out of her life and into silence.
Cassian Blackthorne, Liam’s father. Her father's oldest rival. And once, the man who'd saved Nova's life.
A man with secrets.
A man who had once held her in his arms and whispered, You deserve more tha
