The color drained entirely from his face.

That was the secret Chloe and Eleanor had never understood.

Dominic had told his family my father was just a retired accountant, because he was too embarrassed to admit that I’d turned down a lavish, trust-fund wedding.

In reality, Arthur Sterling controlled the investment firm that had quietly bought the Vances’ collapsing event company six months earlier.

Dominic knew.

He’d begged me never to reveal it, because he knew Eleanor would treat me differently.