Chapter 9

Kaelen didn't hesitate. Before the alarm’s third piercing shriek could finish echoing off the high ceilings, he was moving. He shoved Sienna behind him, his broad shoulders forming a physical barrier between her and the studio's main corridor.

"Stay here," Kaelen ordered, his voice a lo

Chapter 10

The morning after the gala felt like breathing pure oxygen for the first time in years.

Sienna woke up before her alarm, the sunlight streaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows of her new apartment. Her phone was already blowing up with notifications. The front page of every major

Chapter 11

The silence in the studio was louder than a bomb.

Sienna knelt on the hardwood floor, surrounded by the shredded remnants of her life's work. Swatches of mutilated silk and violently slashed muslin patterns covered the ground like the casualties of a massacre. The livestream of Julian’