A Snake Beneath the Roses
Tessa’s legs almost slipped as she climbed the stairs, Blake’s voice still sounding in her head like a threat she couldn’t shake. Her eyes were red and swollen, her skin looking pale. She held on to the banister like it was the only thing keeping her grounded in the sharp-edged mansion that hated her presence.
Rachel’s words kept echoing louder than her own heartbeat: “This is your chance… Don’t waste it.”
But how could she think clearly when her life was almost in shambles? Just one wrong move, and her dreams will be shattered, she’d fall from whatever height she was beginning to climb up to.
Blake stood in the broad hallway just after the staircase, beside him were two neatly dressed men. One of them she recognized—one of Blakes’s legal advisors. The other w
