Chapter 192

SIENNA

The world had teeth.

That was the only way I could explain it. One bite at a time, it stripped away everything I thought was untouchable. First my safety. Then my family. Then Gideon—my anchor, my impossible, my everything—reduced to stillness on a bed that reeked of antiseptic and fear.

And now? Now the empire that had seemed invincible, the Mercer dynasty carved from money, intimida