Liora's POV
"No" I refused. The single word landed like a stone in a still pond. Shock rippled across every face in the room.
Darla’s head snapped back toward me, fury flashing. “What did you say?” She half yelled at me.
I met her gaze unflinchingly. “No. I won’t leave. Not until I’ve done what I came here to do.” I said, Darla could intimate everyone but not me"
“You dare—” Darla tried to speak but was quickly cut off.
“I dare,” I cut across, my tone still calm, but carrying steel beneath. “Because Rowan himself told me to come.”
The name rang out in the air like a whip-crack. Silence fell, absolute. The executives’ jaws dropped, their eyes wide. Rowan’s name was spoken often enough, but never casually, never without title, never without reverence. And I had said it pl
