Valery handed me a folder.
Inside was a photograph of Samantha.
Her sister.
The woman whose disappearance had started Valery’s investigation.
“We finally found the truth,” Valery said.
I looked at the photograph.
“No.”
I smiled faintly.
“We gave her the truth.”
I closed the folder.
For months, I had wondered why Lucas had chosen me.
Why he thought I was just another wealthy woman who could be manipulated.
Then I realized something.
He never understood the difference between having money…
and knowing how to protect it.
He thought he had married an heiress.
