For a second, I forgot how to breathe.
Humiliation.
Betrayal.
The divorce papers.
The day I realised Dominic had always chosen her.
Every memory crashed into me at once.
I almost felt dizzy.
Almost.
Then reality returned.
Five years.
It had been five years.
I wasn’t that woman anymore.
I wasn’t the woman who built her entire world around a man.
And I certainly wasn’t about to let Mirabel Murphy walk into a room and reduce me back into that person.
Slowly, I straightened my back.
Lifted my chin.
Smoothed every trace of emotion from my face.
Then took a slow sip of champagne.
The bubbles burned slightly against my tongue.
“Aurelia…”
Dominic’s voice came quietly beside me.
His hand brushed my shoulder.
I ignored him.
Completely.
Instead, I turned toward Camille.
“Let’
