Sophia's POV
By noon I knew three things.
The Vale family was broken in the specific way that only very rich people managed to be broken, everything tied up in appearances and debt and a Ponzi scheme held together by reputation and fear.
Diana Black had been in contact with Victoria Vale for eight months, longer than any of us had been in this war.
And Damien hadn't said a single unnecessary word since he came back to the table.
That last one I kept noticing. Not because he was usually loud. He wasn't. But there was a difference between his regular quiet and this quiet and I could feel it across the table every time I looked up from the files.
Zane left at ten to follow something he didn't explain.
Dominic left at eleven on a call that made his jaw do the right thing.
Which left me
