In the background I could hear Sienna crying while investigators stood beside the ruined cake.

Chapter 8 — Refusing to Save Them

I did not go. Revenge is not always watching people fall. Sometimes it is refusing to save them.

The next morning I walked into Cresthaven Holdings as its controlling shareholder.

Employees watched me cross the floor toward the boardroom — some of them frightened, some visibly relieved.

My father sat away from the head of the table. My mother clutched her handbag. Sienna hid behind dark glasses.

Damon wasn’t there; a judge had denied him bail after investigators found he was carrying three passports.