Clara’s POV

I had always believed that the truth has a way of crawling out from the shadows, sometimes late, sometimes battered, but it always arrives. For weeks I had been burning inside with one question: Was Damien truly the monster the world painted him to be, or was he simply the man I once loved, caught in the wrong storm?

I refused to be fooled again. I refused to play the victim twice. That was why I buried myself in research documents, old articles, business trails, whispered ...