"Naomi. Do you actually understand your situation right now? What makes you think Sebastian Cole is going to be your dance partner?"
Ethan couldn't resist the jab, aiming to shake some sense into her. "A man like him has seen every kind of woman there is. You think you're somehow the exception? Wake up. I'm the only one who's ever going to actually accept you."
"Even Marcus Sinclair, if he actually knew what you came from, would look down on you the second the novelty wore off. Where do you think you'd be without me?"
Listening to that, Naomi mentally filed Ethan away, permanently, as a textbook narcissist.
"You had nothing to do with where I am today. I built every bit of it myself."
She'd worked her way up from the bottom at Blackwood Enterprises specifically to avoid any whisper of
