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The Cracks in the Foundation (Sienna)

Author: Shidaliya
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-03 06:58:12

I was running out of time.

I could feel it in the way my stomach twisted every time Luca looked at me with trust in his eyes. In the way my chest tightened when he spoke about exposing his father like it was the only thing that mattered.

He didn’t know.

He had no idea that the very thing he was fighting against—the corruption, the power plays, the debts that destroyed families—was the same thing that had granted me a place at Ridgecrest.

The same thing that was keeping me here.

I wasn’t here because I deserved to be.

I was here because Matteo Russo had made it happen.

I curled my fingers around the bedsheet, staring at the ceiling as the morning light bled through the window. I hadn’t slept, but that was nothing new.

How could I?

How could I sleep knowing that Luca was walking straight into a war he didn’t fully understand? That every move he made was bringing him closer to the one truth that could ruin everything between us?

He thought I was on his side.

And I was.

God, I was.

But I
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