The Price of His Love

Woman at His

rced smile and manufactured laugh. Damian Blackwood stood at the center of it all - a l

event of the year. A merger of two powerful empires, a lo

de him, there w

at not even the clinking of

ires, celebrities - all vying for a piece of the Blackwood fortune. Lila leaned into him, he

his role f

voted

owerf

h the world

doors sla

, leaving a sharp silence in its wake. Heads turned. The

when Dami

man in

sence impossible to ignore. A black dress, satin and lethal, kissed every cu

r beauty that stole t

ecklace arou

d given to Arabelle knight on the

s world

o

could

la tense b

snapped under her breath, he

was crashing, rewinding to memories he had

uldn'

n't b

- slow, purposeful. She didn't spare him a glance as she weaved

was

as sh

look like a ghos

champagne flute from a passing tray. Ev

room, her eyes gleaming

r glass with

sper that seemed to crawl d

.. May they r

m Damian's fingers, s

ails dig into his arm as she hissed

was

as B

lle wa

burie

onsume the wreckage of t

as imp

n place with a single look - a look filled with a thou

rward, his heart hamm

ed, though the name b

ider, as if

been waiting f

le backward glance - she

ushing past guests, ignori

to re

ee her u

firm that

reached the hallw

ish

d never been

breathing hard

d Lila's heels clic

hat?!" she demanded, her voi

face her, his face p

..

't find t

ved - the woman you let die - had just walked in

started almos

was

see her n

ed like s

ost,

waiting t

ffed the air,

changed worr

rely hear

s locked on

bel

was

was a

stayed away

et him believ

ke a specter - on the night he pl

Lila's face was inches from

er voice trembling. "Who is sh

t, he almos

truth he didn't yet f

graphers, the shareholders, the politicians - all

forced himsel

cket, wiped the sw

ced a

t," he said cold

ground, and as the guests returned to their s

d never forget

her was stitched into e

, she w

ld him she wasn'

here for