Claimed by his obsession
Sophia gave three years of her life to a man who ruined her without even looking up from his phone. Married into the powerful Vale family, she thought loyalty would protect her. She was dead wrong. Caught in her own bed with his assistant, Marcus Vale offered eviction instead of an apology. Because that's exactly what trash like him does.
Thrown out into a rainstorm with an empty bank account, the family she served left her for dead. But Dominic Black, Marcus's most dangerous rival, offered a deal: become a Black. The sister they never had. Use their name, their wealth, and their power to burn the Vale legacy to the ground.
It's the perfect plan for revenge. Until she meets Damien.
Damien Black is the youngest, the wildest, and the most broken. He doesn't want a sister. He wants to break her and then mold her into what he wants. She doesn't know it yet....but she's his salvation. And he doesn't care, because Damien always gets what he wants. Sophia is the new sun his sanity orbits.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 20Damien's POVThe drive back was twenty minutes of silence and thinking.Mei sat in the back with her bag on her lap looking out the window like someone taking in a city she had decided to assess rather than admire. Sophia sat beside me with the laptop against her chest and her eyes on the road and her mind somewhere I could see but not reach.I let her have it.At the fifteen-minute mark she said "Miss Chen."I glanced at her."Linda Marsh," she said. "She's been in that house for eleven years. She would have been there when I arrived. When I left. Every dinner, every argument, every conversation I had with Marcus and Victoria in that house for three years." She paused. "She knew everything about me before I knew anything about myself.""Yes," I said."Diana built a file on me," she said. "Before the marriage. Before any of this." She looked at the laptop in her hands. "She's had eyes on me for three years and I never knew.""She didn't count on you ending up here," I said."No," Soph
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Chapter: CHAPTER 19Sophia's POVI was out of the car before Damien finished saying wait.He caught my arm. Not rough. Just firm and certain and immovable in the specific way of someone who had decided this."Sophia.""That's my aunt in there," I said."I know," he said. "Which is exactly why we don't run in blind." He looked at the house. Then at the car two houses down. Then back at me. "Give me thirty seconds."I gave him thirty seconds because he was right and I hated that he was right and standing on a pavement at two in the morning outside my aunt's house with every light blazing and the door open was not the moment to stop listening to the person who thought clearly when everything was urgent.He texted Zane. Four words. Sent his location and the word now.Then he looked at me."Here's what we know," he said quietly. Fast and clear. "Someone is in that house or was recently. The car down the street has been running. The door is open which means either Mei left it open deliberately or someone came
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Chapter: CHAPTER 18 Chapter 18Damien's POVCarter.I said his name once in my head and let it sit there and felt the shape of it change from an " ally to a question mark in the space of about four seconds.Sophia was already thinking it. I could see it in her face, that quiet focused recalibration she did when something shifted and she was updating every prior conclusion in real time."It might not be him," she said."It might not be," I said.Neither of us believed that."Who else was in that estate tonight," she said. "Walk me through it. Everyone.""Us. Remy. Carter." I paused. "The portrait of Victoria's grandmother but I'm ruling her out."Sophia's mouth did the thing that was almost a smile even when everything was terrible. I filed that away because I was apparently filing everything about her now without meaning to."The staff," she said. "Were there staff in the building?"I stopped.The Vale mansion ran a skeleton night staff. Two people minimum. We had moved through the building focused enti
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Chapter: CHAPTER 17Sophia's POVI didn't sleep.Not because of Diana or the email or Marcus or any of the things that should have been keeping me up. Those I could compartmentalise. I had spent three years in the Vale mansion learning to compartmentalise things that would have broken most people before breakfast.I didn't sleep because of what Damien had said outside the gate.Especially me.Two words. Said quietly and completely and with the specific certainty of someone who didn't say things they didn't mean. I had been lying in the dark turning them over for two hours and they kept landing the same way every time.Heavy. Warm. Terrifying.I got up at one in the morning and went to the kitchen because that was what I did and I was done pretending otherwise.The lights were already on.Damien was sitting on the counter, not on a stool, actually on the counter, with his laptop open and a coffee that had clearly been there long enough to go cold and his hair doing the thing it did when he had been runnin
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Chapter: CHAPTER 16Sophia's POVThey were outside.I stared at the photograph on Remy's screen and felt my brain do that thing it did when information arrived faster than it could be processed. A kind of white static behind the eyes that lasted exactly two seconds before everything sharpened.Two seconds.Then I was moving."How old is this photo?" I said, taking Remy's phone."Timestamp says four minutes ago," Remy said.Four minutes. Which meant while we were standing in Victoria's study feeling like we had won something, Diana and Richard Black had driven up to the front of the estate we had just left and were currently standing outside it like they owned it.Which technically, if the will clause went unchallenged, they might."Zane," Damien said into his phone. He had made the call before I finished my second sentence. "Lock down the estate. Full perimeter. Nobody gets through that gate." A pause. "I don't care how they got there. Don't let them in."He hung up and looked at me."We need to go back
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Chapter: CHAPTER 15Sophia's POVThe Vale mansion looked exactly the same.That was the thing that hit me first. I had been gone for six days. Six days that had dismantled and rebuilt everything I thought I knew about my life and the people in it and myself. Six days that felt like six months from the inside.And the mansion looked exactly the same.Same iron gates. Same gravel path. Same lights in the upper windows casting the same yellow glow onto the same perfect lawn. Like nothing had happened here. Like I hadn't stood on that porch in the rain with a cracked suitcase and nothing else while the door slammed behind me.I walked up to the front entrance and rang the bell.Thirty seconds.The door opened.Not a guard. Not Victoria. Not anyone I had been expecting.Carter Moss.I had seen one photograph of him, pulled from Zane's files this afternoon. Mid forties, sandy haired, the kind of face that looked trustworthy because it had been practicing for a long time.He looked at me with an expression that
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