Chapter 5

The elevator doors slid open with a soft, musical chime, revealing the entire forty-second floor of the Thorne Luxury Group building. Sienna stepped out, her breath catching in her throat as her heels clicked against the pristine white marble.

The space was a vast, sun-drenched sanctuar

Chapter 6

The adrenaline of Julian's public humiliation carried the Vance Couture team for exactly three days. For seventy-two hours, the studio was a symphony of creativity. Sienna sketched relentlessly, her charcoal flying across the heavy textured paper, bringing the avant-garde silhouettes in h

Chapter 7

The air in Milan tasted different—heavier, older, and laced with the faint, metallic tang of industrial fabric dyes. Sienna Vance stood before the imposing wrought-iron gates of *Tessitura Moretti*, the oldest and most prestigious silk mill in Northern Italy. The sprawling brick complex h