Chapter 1 - THE SHATTERED MASK
Elena Moretti endured years of humiliation as Adrian Vance’s dismissed, supposedly orphaned wife. Believing she was a nameless beggar reliant on his family’s wealth, Adrian publicly tied her arms in the grand ballroom on her birthday, subjecting her to thirty brutal lashes to placate his mistress, Vanessa Hart, over a spilt drop of red wine. Unbeknownst to the arrogant Vance family, Elena’s five older brothers were not low-level street thugs, but global powerhouses of finance, military intelligence, and private security. When Elena freed herself and made a single phone call to her eldest brother Dominic, armored convoys breached the estate gates. The hunt had officially begun.
