Ella
The moment Kane led me out of the banquet hall, my hand still wrapped in his, my pulse refused to settle.
Everything that happened downstairs…the humiliation, Paige’s meltdown, the uproar, the whispers, felt like a storm I had barely escaped.
But walking beside Kane… it was another kind of storm entirely.
I expected him to drive us home. Instead, he guided me straight into the private elevator that led to the twentieth floor…the highest level of Ublento Hotel, a floor even celebrities whispered about like it was forbidden territory.
The doors slid open to a breathtaking penthouse suite restaurant.
Warm golden lighting spilled across polished marble, soft music drifted in the air, and the city glittered through floor-to-ceiling windows.
Everything here screamed power and we
