Kylian
Danika's warning stayed with me longer than I expected. If this goes wider than either of your families. I turned the sentence over more times than I could count in the weeks that followed, and it changed the way I moved through my own company, the way I read every board member's face across a conference table, wondering how many of them had built their fortunes on inheritances that arrived a little too conveniently, a little too soon.
I didn't say any of that to Isabella, not directly, but she noticed anyway. She noticed most things now, a skill Solange and Reyes had built into her that I sometimes wondered if I should be grateful for or wary of.
"You've been distracted," she said one evening, finding me in the study with a spreadsheet of board members' family histories I had no
