Three years later, Sienna stood in her office at Reed Castellano Consulting and looked out at the Brooklyn skyline.
Five years ago, she'd been someone's secret. Hidden. Diminished. Making herself small to fit into a life that wasn't hers. Dating a man who couldn't choose her. Working at a firm that fired her the moment she became inconvenient.
Now she was a business owner. A mother. A wife. A woman who'd built something real from the rubble of her old life.
The Volkov situation had resolved slowly. Painfully. With federal investigations and witness protection considerations and months of uncertainty. But eventually, Alexei Volkov and three other family members were arrested on unrelated charges. The pressure on Alessandro's family disappeared. The threats faded. Life returned to something resembling normal.
