Vanessa’s POV
Vanessa was used to being adored, pursued, envied. She had spent years building her image, sculpting herself into the kind of woman men begged for and women gossiped about. To be invisible was unthinkable. To be dismissed? Unforgivable.
And yet Damian Blackwood had been doing both.
Every unanswered call, every message left on read, every night she spent alone in her apartment staring at her phone — it scraped at her pride until she bled fury.
She had given him everything. Her body. Her loyalty. Her silence when silence was useful. She had played the role he needed: the beautiful, uncomplicated woman who asked for nothing but gave him everything.
And now he thought he could toss her aside for her. That filthy surrogate.
Evelyn Carter.
The surrogate. The nobody waitress
