Chapter 44: The Same Ballroom

The night before the gala, Sienna stood in the small closet of Priya's guest room, staring at the single formal dress she'd brought with her when she moved out five weeks earlier, and felt the peculiar vertigo of realizing she was about to walk back into the exact same ballroom where her entire fake marriage had begun, wearing, essentially, the same posture of fear and defiance she'd worn that fir...