When I walked into my office, she followed closely behind, her eyes sweeping over the room as though she were inspecting a property she planned to buy. She finally settled on the couch near the window, crossing one leg over the other with the kind of confidence that felt… performative.
As I had already noted, she looked nothing like Ella. Both sisters were beautiful, but in very different ways. One carried herself with quiet humility and calmness that even worried me, while this one had that main character kind of arrogance that made her look like a bully.
After the wedding, I had tried digging deeper into Ella's background, but there wasn't much to uncover—only that her mother had died when she was around ten, and her father had been unfaithful during his marriage. That affair was what gave him another daughter. This one.
"What did you want to talk to me about?" I asked, making my way toward my desk just as Kayden, my beta, knocked and stepped inside.
