Damon's POV
I never came here for the banquet. I never came here for networking. I certainly didn't come here for Sterling. The Old Town redevelopment project... it was only bait.
From the moment Justin reported that Aria had returned under the name Eira, I had already investigated everything.
I tried to figure out why she had returned. Then one name surfaced. The Grayson family's Old Town redevelopment project. Joshua Grayson's final dream.
I knew she would come for it. So I reached Sterling first. I offered him terms he couldn't refuse. Not because I wanted the land. I wanted her. Nothing else mattered.
The first moment she stepped into the ballroom... everything else disappeared. The music. The conversations.
The dozens of Alphas gathered under one roof. None of them existed anym
