After spending two hours with Josephine Astor, I felt like I’d been hit by a double decker bus. No—more like run over, reversed on, and flattened into the pavement. The weight of everything she’d said was pressing down on my chest, squeezing every last drop of energy out of me.
She wanted me to be her pawn. To keep Leo distracted. To sabotage him. The things she had asked me to do… they were unspeakable. Unfathomable. Cruel. But at the same time, wasn’t it what he deserved? He had dragged me into this nightmare, humiliated me, treated me like an inconvenience. Maybe it was time he got a taste of his own medicine.
And besides, Josephine held all the cards. She had the power to ruin me, my friends, my father’s company—everything I cared about. If I didn’t do as she asked, she would make su
