Emilia
I stood before the massive fireplace in the study, my mind racing as I tried to process everything that had happened in the last twenty-four hours. Damien had finally shared the truth about his family's intentions toward me—how they had orchestrated my forced marriage to him, how they were willing to destroy me for their own gain.
But there was something I hadn't anticipated. Something that had just been revealed to me.
The will.
My mother's last will and testament. I had always believed it to be straightforward—she had left me a small portion of her wealth, as if to acknowledge me without fully including me. It had always felt like a final act of kindness before she disappeared from my life. But now, standing in the study with the paperwork strewn before me, I was learning just how much I had been kept in the dark.
