Isabelle’s POV

Victory doesn’t come with fireworks.

Not for people like me.

It comes with silence.

The kind that hangs in the room like dust, untouched, undisturbed, waiting for you to finally exhale after holding your breath for too long.

I was alone in my penthouse when the news hit every major network.

“Walter Blackwood and Kaia Whitmore arrested in connection to multiple federal charges…”

The footage played on a loop—Walter in his signature suit, face like stone, refusing ...