The basement of the twins’ penthouse was cold, dim, and humming with quiet machinery — a stark contrast to the burning chaos unfolding inside Sterling Tower.

Alina sat hunched over the screens, eyes bloodshot, heart pounding, her thoughts still echoing from the shock she didn’t even know she’d soon face: the truth about her mother.

She had no idea Lucian had just revealed everything to Ares.

No idea that her whole world — the world she thought she understood — had already ...