Victoria Langford knew how to play the long game.
She had spent years in the circles of the wealthy and powerful, understanding that love was rarely the glue that held relationships together—leverage was. And if there was one thing she had learned from her brief entanglement with Sebastian Hale, it was that he was the kind of man who needed the right woman at his side.
She was going to make sure she was that woman.
For good this time.
Sebastian had let her go once before, but that was when his heart had still belonged to Isabelle. Now? Now he was bitter. Wounded. Caught in a game of one-upmanship that he refused to acknowledge.
And that?
That was exactly what Victoria needed.
Because if she could make herself indispensable, if she could prove to him that she fit into his world the w
