~Bianca's POV~
"The one Damien is supposed to marry."
That sentence hadn't stopped echoing since Moira dropped it like it was a harmless afterthought. Since Damien's face went blank and he followed her out without a word. Since the floor gave out under every single one of us.
He was supposed to get married?
To someone?
Why the hell hadn't he mentioned that before handing me a contract and asking me to play his little game for six goddamn months?
Why manipulate Nathan and me into signing a fake partnership agreement, only to blindside me with some secret fiancée waiting in the wings like a third-act plot twist?
And yeah, sure, he'd said he never agreed to it. But that didn't change the fact that the expectation existed. That his family clearly wanted it. That it had been an option he
