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She's basically my sister, Gabriel had told me more times than I could count. "Gabe and I don't keep secrets. We were family before he knew your name," Sloane said, like it was a trophy. Four years. I'd stood beside Gabriel through funerals, bloodshed, and every fight for power within his family. I ran the hotel my father left me, and I said yes when he proposed with my father's watch on his wrist. On the night of our engagement dinner, with blood still drying on my ballroom floor, he handed my master keys to Sloane. "Lock Maren in the vault." He ordered her to imprison me beneath my father's hotel. Gabriel stood one floor above me with the only key. He thought locking me underground would break me. But he forgot I had grown up in this hotel.