Sloane's POV

I walked back to the car after seeing my effort was just a waste,I felt like I was grabbing what wasn't mine,I have lost my Damien.

{Flashback}

I remember the softness of those nights, the kind that blurred the line between love and empire. The city hummed outside, but inside Damien’s penthouse, it was just us two conspirators wrapped in silk sheets and whispered ambition.

The bed was enormous, but I was curled against him, my head rising and falling with his steady ...