The world forgot Aria.
Agatha became Mrs. Rivera—the beautiful, soft-spoken wife of Damien. The media adored their union, the syndicate thrived. Aria, on the other hand, was sent away. Her parents reassigned her to the lower operations...financial management, intelligence gathering, silent roles that no one acknowledged but everyone depended on.
She worked in the shadows, out of sight, where bitterness grew like mold in her heart. Every letter of congratulation for her sister felt like another knife twisting deeper. And still, she didn’t hate Agatha. Not at first.
It was when the accident happened that everything broke again.
Agatha’s mission had gone wrong, an ambush, a blast, a heart that nearly stopped. Aria had been the one who found her in the wreckage, blood staining the snow. F
