Alexander’s POV
The city lights blurred beneath the rain-streaked glass of Alexander Kane’s office.
For the first time since he had become CEO of Kane Holdings, the empire his father built no longer felt like power.
It felt like a cage.
The boardroom doors down the hall were closed tonight, but he could almost hear them—the whispers, the accusations, the calculations.
The shareholder vote.
The engagement.
The scandal.
All of it revolved around one thing.
Lila.
Alexander loosened his tie, the silk suddenly suffocating.
Marcus’s confession still echoed in his mind.
Richard Kane was alive.
And the man who had supposedly died years ago was now quietly pulling strings behind the board, orchestrating a return that would put Alexander exactly where he wanted him—
Married to Seraphin
