Sienna had taken the first step.
Now, there was no turning back.
The meeting with Adrian had been brief but potent—an exchange laced with tension, old wounds, and a hunger for vengeance that neither of them could suppress.
He hadn’t agreed outright to help her.
He wasn’t a fool.
But he had listened.
And in a world like theirs, that was the first move on the board.
Now, as she slipped back into Luca’s estate under the cover of darkness, her heartbeat thundered in her ears.
The passageway she had used was still untouched, the guard’s absence unnoticed—for now.
But Luca’s world was built on paranoia, on control so tight that even the slightest shift could send everything into chaos.
She had to be careful.
She had to be invisible.
Sienna moved swiftly through the halls, her mi
