Marcus POV
I sat alone in my office long after Vanya and Richmond had left, staring at the empty conference room where everything had changed. The papers from Kingston's investment offer were still scattered across the table, but I couldn't focus on them. All I could think about was the look on Vanya's face when I told her I was in love with her.
Shock. That's what I had seen in her beautiful brown eyes. Complete shock, like the idea had never crossed her mind in twenty years of friendship.
Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut. Maybe I should have waited for a better time, when she wasn't dealing with divorce papers and business investments and mysterious warnings from Richmond. But watching her transform from the broken woman who called me three weeks ago into this confident, powerfu
