The golden leaf on the ceiling of the Montgomery Estate seemed to catch the flickering afternoon light as Liam Livingston stood in the center of the foyer, a calm island in a sea of corporate and physical predators. To the members of the Montgomery Clan, he was still the "clerk," the live-in failure who had spent three years as a silent shadow in their halls. Even Serena Montgomery, who had recently witnessed flashes of his hidden depth, couldn't believe her eyes.
She had seen Liam humble Preston Montgomery at the Chairman’s birthday gala, but this was different. Dominic Holt wasn't a pampered corporate scion; he was a Grandmaster Holt, a five-time world champion of C.Q.C. and a man rumored to have reached a high level in the Evolutionary Stages of physical combat. To Serena, Liam’s decis
