Chapter 62 Buried Secrets

• Eve stood by the window of her lavish room, looking out over the city, her mind racing. For all her composure, for all her cool exterior, she was still human. And beneath the calm facade, the weight of what had happened—the destruction of her family, the loss of her place, the betrayal by Alina—gnawed at her.
• She had taken everything from her. Everything. Alina had destroyed her once, left her broken and discarded, and now, as if the universe had conspired to right the wrongs, it seemed Eve had risen to claim the life she had once dreamed of. But in her heart, Eve knew this wasn’t the victory she had imagined. It was a hollow one. The price had been too high.
• The engagement to Alina’s fiancé, the reputation she had built as a woman of power and control, it all came at the cost of destroying someone who had once been her rival—yes—but also someone she had shared her life with, even if they never fully understood each other. Alina had taken from her. But in her pursuit of vengeance, Eve had lost a part of herself.