Chapter 196

SIENNA

Love had a way of sneaking up on you.

Not the kind that blindsided with fire and chaos—that was Gideon, always Gideon—but the kind that bloomed slow, like dawn seeping over the horizon. Quiet, patient, impossible to ignore once you noticed.

That was Declan and Celine.

Celine had clawed her way back from the pit Silvio had thrown her into. She wasn’t the fragile, trembling shadow tha