Chapter 10: The Ex Who Refused to Stay Buried
The next morning hits like a bomb.
I wake up with Bella draped across my chest, her hair fanned over my shoulder, one leg hooked over mine. Sunlight pours through the windows, turning the room gold. For about ten seconds everything is perfect.
Then my phone, the real one, on the nightstand, starts vibrating so hard it nearly falls off.
I reach over and silence it without looking. Thirty seven missed calls. Ninety one new messages. The headlines are already screaming across every screen in the country.
LOCKWOOD HEIR RISES FROM THE DEAD, TAKES EMPIRE BACK IN BLOODLESS COUP
VANESSA SINCLAIR’S FIANCÉ RETURNS, AND HE’S SINGLE
WHO IS THE MYSTERY WOMAN SEEN LEAVING WITH DAMIAN LOCKWOOD?
That last one has a blurry paparazzi shot of me carrying
