Chapter 1

Risk

Arbella’s POV

“Are you lost, girl?” the intimidating security guard in front of me asked coldly.

“N–No. I’m… not. This is the right address.” I winced at how uncertain I sounded, my heart racing unnecessarily.

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He looked me over slowly, suspicion written plainly across his face, before pushing himself off the wall and typing something into his phone. “Give me a minute. Do not move.”

I shouldn’t be here. I was supposed to be at my brother’s graduation party, not sneaking into a luxury apartment building in the middle of the night for a man who barely acknowledged my existence. Getting this far had already been harder than 1 expected, and just when I thought I’d finally made it upstairs, another guard had stopped me at the elevator like the universe itself was trying to drag me back outside. It should have worked.