ALEXANDER’S POV
I was never the type to entertain nonsense at parties, and Caleb’s idiotic offer had been just that, nonsense.
But something about her stopped me.
When Caleb offered her to me like a pawn in a shady business deal, I should’ve walked away. Told him to go to hell but instead... I agreed.
Why?
Maybe it was the way she flinched when Caleb touched her arm, or the hollow behind her eyes. She looked like a woman who had forgotten how to breathe freely. A bird trapped in a cage so long, she wasn’t sure she remembered how to fly.
I’d seen a lot of beautiful women in my life….confident, calculated, ambitious but none like her. Nia.
Even her name lingered.
Now, hours later, I found her in the library, curled in the old velvet chair by the window, sound asleep. She stil
