Vanessa’s POV

Vanessa was used to being adored, pursued, envied. She had spent years building her image, sculpting herself into the kind of woman men begged for and women gossiped about. To be invisible was unthinkable. To be dismissed? Unforgivable.

And yet Damian Blackwood had been doing both.

Every unanswered call, every message left on read, every night she spent alone in her apartment staring at her phone — it scraped at her pride until she bled fury.

She had given him everything. ...