- LUCA
I leaned my forehead against the cool mahogany of the library’s bookshelves, my hand pressed firmly into the fire burning in my gut.
My father’s cough echoed from the bedroom down the hall—a wet, rattling sound that made my wolf restless.
But it wasn't my father’s illness that had me on edge. It was the voices drifting up from the drawing-room below.
"I’m done, Helena. Truly," Ivy said sharply, cutting through the silence of the estate. "I opened the feed this morning and there he was. Rowan. My husband was caught in a 'scandalous' news outside a club with some twenty-year-old actress who probably doesn't even know what a shift feels like. I'm not playing the standing-by-my-man role anymore. I want the papers. I want out."
I closed my eyes. Rowan, you i***t. "Ivy, d
