Chapter 76

SIENNA

I returned to the penthouse just past eleven, the city still humming beneath my heels. The wine buzz lingered—warm, heady—but it couldn’t dull the bitter taste of Beatrice’s threat or Valeria’s venom still lodged in my chest like a splinter.

I pushed open the door and paused.

The lights were off.

Only the soft glow from the city bled through the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting shadows acr