Naomi's POV
The article dropped before I opened my eyes.
I knew it before my phone lit up. Something in the air had changed, it was heavier, tighter, like a storm pressing against the glass from the outside in.
Kendra’s message came first: You’re trending and It’s not good.
Raymond was still asleep beside me. Miranda was humming faintly in her room, her voice rising and falling like birdsong through the hallway. But the moment I tapped the link Kendra sent, the warmth in my chest turned to ice.
> “Beneath the Violets: Naomi Montego’s Quiet Rise Back to Power”
Scandal, Silence, Secrets, What does the Montego heiress owe the public—and what is she hiding?
They didn’t hold back.
They dragged up my father’s withdrawal from Sanborn, Rehashed the takeover attempt by Rachel. They Ques
