(Aurora's POV)
Phineas's low, magnetic voice echoed through the boutique, dripping with undisguised mockery.
"Little girl, where are your manners?"
The air in the shop seemed to freeze. I stared at him in shock, my hand instinctively clutching the neckline of the dress. I never expected to see him here, of all places.
Jasper and Sienna looked at him, their expressions shifting from annoyance to wariness. The man standing before them exuded a suffocating pressure, an aura of absolute command that didn't match his simple action of holding a suit jacket.
Because Phineas had been managing the overseas markets for years and only recently returned to Los Angeles to take the helm of Everett Global, very few people outside the core board of directors knew his face. To Jasper and Sienna, he wa
