The morning sun bled through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Vanguard Hospitality’s executive level, casting long, sharp shadows across the marble floors. It was 7:30 AM. In exactly ninety minutes, the emergency board meeting would commence.

Sienna Vance stood in front of the sweeping glass doors

The heavy glass doors of Conference Room B clicked shut. Sienna stood in the carpeted hallway, her heart pounding a frantic rhythm against her ribs. The adrenaline was a high-voltage current in her veins, making her fingertips tingle. She had done it. She had looked the monster in the eye and hadn't

The boardroom was a cavern of tension, the silence ringing in the aftermath of Sienna's challenge. She walked past the row of seated, anxious board members, her heels clicking rhythmically against the hardwood floor. She didn't look at Liam Thorne or Chloe Sterling as she made her way to the head of