Ben could only sigh at his words. “Very well, sir.”
Just as the suffocating silence began to settle, the door to the office burst open without so much as a knock.
“Hello, Kai.”
Serena slid into the room and carried herself like a queen in mourning, her painted lips twisting into a knowing smirk.
Kai tilted his head as his gaze began narrowing onto her. He was no longer the man chained to the memory of his promise to love only Celeste. That vow had been broken the moment Abigail looked at him with wide, trusting eyes. No, he was no longer bound to the dead.
And so when his eyes landed on Serena, instead of the flicker of shame or guilt that once haunted him, they darkened with something far more dangerous.
Because in that instant, clarity struck him. If Serena had not barged into his
