Serena left the lounge after managing only a few desultory bites of her dinner. Her mind was still whirling from that intense, unsettling conversation with Knox.
A potent cocktail of jealousy roiled in her gut as she dwelled on the reality that he was intimately involved with another woman - that she didn't have his fidelity or loyalty despite the marriage binding them together.
She wandered the labyrinthine halls of the huge villa in a daze, trying to get her bearings in this gilded cage that was to be her new home.
Serena stumbled upon an exquisite, open staircase with ornate wrought iron railings and a plush marble floor leading down to the depths below.
She descended the stairs absentmindedly but was jolted from her reverie by a familiar, angry voice that sent a jolt of surpris
