#Chapter 30: The Partnership

Sienna’s POV I have no idea how to feel. There are a thousand thoughts moving through my mind, an impossible scenario facing me. More impossible than I ever thought could be. Had Mia come here to find him? I wouldn’t deny that my heart was breaking at the thought. For the rest of the day and the following, I barely left my room. I ignored my duties, left my chores undone,and refused to speak to Asher. After at least a full day of ignoring him, he banged on my door — albeit politely. “Sienna,” he sighed, definitely annoyed with me. “You need to be present for this one, okay?” Annoyance prickled at me, remembering when he said my youth was showing. Those words had stuck with me since the moment he’d said them, a sour reminder of how he really saw me. Only four years younger and apparently still wildly immature. “What?” I snapped back, huddling against my blankets. “Lucius has a really important mee