The Cost of a Signed Name
The ink on the marriage certificate was still tacky, a dark, permanent stain marking the transition from Elena Vance, disgraced heiress, to Elena Thorne, corporate pawn. In the private study, the air tasted of ozone and old paper.
Julian Thorne stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, his silhouette a sharp, unyielding line against the manicured gloom of the estate. He didn't look like a groom; he looked like a general surveying a battlefield he had
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