Chapter 22 A Dangerous Seduction

• The storm had rolled in just before midnight, the kind that clawed against the windows and rattled the mansion’s old bones. Elena sat by the fireplace in the quiet library, her hands wrapped around a mug that had long since gone cold. She hadn’t slept since Damian unveiled the truth of his mother—the accident, the coma, the hatred he had nursed in silence. The truth still echoed through her.
• Her father.
• Her father had destroyed Damian’s family.