KATIA'S POV
The text came in just after dawn, the screen lighting up softly against the darkness of my bedroom. I blinked at the glow, stretched a little, and reached over to check it. It was a message from Delia.
"Hey sis, don’t forget my engagement is today. The Windsors will send a car to pick us up. Please be there for me. Love you."
I stared at the message for a long while.
The Windsors.
Even now the name left a bitter tang in my mouth. A family so powerful my parents had practically salivated at the idea of marrying into them. That’s all I’d been back then, a deal. A promise. A pawn. And now my sister Delia was the one they were marrying off, not me. I was never told why the arrangement shifted, but I assumed it had something to do with my scandalous pregnancy and sudden disappe
