MY SAVIOR
~SIMONE POV~
The image on the screen made my knees buckle. It was a surveillance photo, clearly taken months before the wedding. Rafael sat at a café table, but he wasn't alone.
Baron was across from him, leaning forward conspiratorially, an envelope changing hands between them.
"When was this taken?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper.
"Six months ago. Three months before your engagement was announced."
The betrayal hit me like a physical blow. Not because I had loved Rafael…..I hadn't. But because it meant everything I had believed about my life, my family, my father's protection, had been a lie.
"How long have you known?" I asked.
"From the beginning." His voice was carefully neutral. "It's why I was at the wedding, Simone. Not to kill your father, but to save you fr
