Chapter 5

Daisy's makeup was perfect, and she was enjoying herself enormously.

She took off her sunglasses and showed me a pair of eyes I would have known anywhere. "Stella? What are you doing at Sterling Manor? Is this really the kind of place a broke girl like you gets to walk into?"

I closed my fists until my nails cut into my palms.

Daisy. That vicious woman.

She had taken my husband, and she had taken my father.

And then she faked her own death, walked away clean, and turned up standing next to Julian.

What was she after?

I pushed…