Chapter 248: All For A Man

Savannah Was I surprised? Truly—genuinely—was I shocked that Penelope Valentine, a woman who had never bothered to hide her distaste for me, would stoop so low as to spread malicious rumors about me behind my back? No. Absolutely fucking not. Penelope hated me because Roman loved me. And I wasn’t naïve or arrogant enough to pretend otherwise. I had seen it in the way she acted in his office that day. The way she made sure to insert herself in his life. The way she rubbed it in my face that she knew him and his family better than I did. So no—her cruelty didn’t shock me. What did surprise me was the effort. That she had found the time, between her polished courtroom appearances and her meticulously curated career as a lawyer, to actively destroy my reputation. That she had made it her personal mission to ensure Roman’s siblings saw me as a villain before ever speaking to me. That took dedication. Obsession. And something deeply, disturbingly wrong. How broken did you have to be to take