“A family does not humiliate someone for eight years and then demand loyalty the moment the truth becomes inconvenient.”

“We gave you the Beckworth name.”

“And the Danforth name paid for the house where you treated me like unpaid help.”

The ballroom went quiet again, and into that quiet Isadora laid the rest of it out, plainly, without heat.

The mansion in Naples belonged to a Danforth Capital property company.

Lucius’s business headquarters had been purchased through one of her funds.