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Rosa’s povEnter Marcus with evidence, and suddenly we had the makings of a plan. The papers were incriminating—accounting ledgers, emails, contracts; all proving Reginald operated an illegal manner of business. There alone he had bribed officials, faked records and intimidated designers, suppliers and competitors. And that was all it took to not only assassinate his character but also take down the empire he created out of lies and terror.The next step was taking the evidence to where it needed be.We partnered with investigative journalists who wanted to expose Reginald for years but never had the evidence to corroborate their theory. They poured through Marcus's records, confirming every detail before sending out a hatchet job that reverberated around town and left fashion zinging.My phone was buzzing nonstop the morning of the story.A headline read: “Empire Crumbles: Reginald Sued For Alleged Fraud & Intimidation.”Heading: A tabloid headline from October 2023, right after I st
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Rosa’s povIt was my belief that time would sand down the rough patches. If I had a life with Emma, if her laughter echoed in our home along with growing dreams and maybe even love, I thought, perhaps then I could block the pain from my mind. Yet there are some wounds that you cannot hide away, so deep will they ensconced themselves in the well of your heart.But tonight, standing in the dim light of our living room while James flipped through the recent designs I’d left on our coffee table, those wounds seemed nonexistent. They were simply concealed, resting deep below the depths, awaiting for an instance such as this to surface.“Are you happy with these?” Excuse me James said, holding up one of the sketches His tone was neutral, as if he were just inquiring about the weather. Even so, there was an earnestness in that tone, a genuine desire to connect with something I placed value on.“I was, uh…” I said, cutting myself off. "They're fine." I looked aside, staring at a place on the
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James’s POVGuilt has a way of burrowing under your skin — like, something you can feel all the time and never get rid of. I still feel it even when Rosa says we are moving on, the reminder of every sin I committed against her, all the ways I fell short.But it's not just Rosa anymore. It’s Emma.Whenever I see her smile, it reminds me how close I came to losing that too. The abduction, the life threatening situation she was in haunts me. I leave each day knowing I was not there to protect her, and that haunts me.Anyway, I had decided to do my best to keep them safe. Both of them. At any cost.The first time Rosa noticed, I was guilty, she says she thought I was merely observing. It was a minor matter — I insisted on sending her home from the boutique in a driver, notwithstanding she has never wanted for independence. She laughed at me, smiled politely but I could see the twinkle in her eye.She had said, lightly, James, it’s only a few blocks.“Indulge me,” I said, mustering a smile
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Rosa’s POVThey began looking for something banal. I wasn't intruding, not really. This was when I was sorting out James's office drawers, something I'd volunteered to do when I'd seen the mountain of files building and papers strewn around. That was so like him, careful and meticulous about business yet chaotic in his personal affairs.What I discovered, however, was anything but what I expected.The envelope, well aged but of fairly crisp paper, was in reverent service to the letter, with edges tattered from too many folds. I knew I was about to see something familiar once my hand shook as I drew it out, the faint scrawl in loops.Haylee.Just the name itself caused my chest to clench. I knew relatively little about her, just snippets he'd been unwilling to share. I knew all the details, she was his ex-girlfriend before me, a shining star in his life snuffed out before her time.I looked over my shoulder, anticipating James to walk in here and catch me with the letter. But he wasn’t
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Rosa’s POVThere are things no parent is ready for — nothing anyone could ever tell you will dull the stab of watching your child completely shattered, terrified and questioning her every understanding of life as to how reality works. When we had gotten Emma home, I told myself for weeks that she would be fine —that she was tough like her father and smart like me.Yet there I was outside her bedroom with her wails cleaving up the night and suddenly I arrived at the cold, hard realization that she really wasn’t okay.“Mommy!” Desperation laced Emma's voice, hoarse and afraid—an octave that snapped me up on my feet like a hot iron.I very cautiously opened the door not wanting to scare her. She was propped up with her covers bundled around her, shaking like a mini jackhammer. Like James, her blue eyes were wide, searching the room for whatever they saw lurking in the shadows.I replied softly, sitting on the edge of her bed: I'm here sweetheart.She threw herself into my arms so that he
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Rosa’s POVSecrets have a way of finding the spotlight, but they do tend to stay in the shadows until perhaps the best—or worst—time for them to shine. For all those years, I had been two people—the face of Rosa's Boutique and the invisible puppeteer of one of the planet's top fashion houses. I enjoyed the work and creative aspects, the power of manifesting my vision into reality.However, this power also came at a cost.James texted me one word, urgent — I knew something was up, this was during a design meeting we were having. I made an excuse and immediately called him.“James, what’s going on?”His voice was tense, his words carefully articulated. “Rosa, you need to come home. Now.”He was already pacing the living room when I got there, his laptop on the coffee table. He had his tie hanging loose, sleeves rolled up, and when he turned around to talk to me the furrow in his brow deepened.“What happened?” I asked, my heart pounding.He gestured to a screen where an email thread was
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Rosa’s POV The worst I thought was over. Vivian was incarcerated, and Dera could no longer be implicated. The ghosts of the past had finally disappeared—or so I thought. It came in the mail one Tuesday, wedged between Emma’s school newsletter and a magazine. At first, it was benign: a little bracelet, exquisite and simple; one charm only—tiny rosebud, fragile little thing really—and made without the telltale stain of industry. It was not the bracelet itself that upset me but rather the accompanying note. “to the woman who flourishes in the chaos.” There was no signature. No return address. Nothing but those words, written on a blank card. Sunlight glinted on the charm as I turned the bracelet in my hands. It was pretty, for sure, but it felt... wrong. I later showed it to James coming home that evening. “Did you buy this for me?” So I asked, sounding far more casual than I felt. After frowning a moment, he took the bracelet from my hand. “No. Why?” So I said, “It came in the
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James’s POVI was asleep after a bad night when the call came; Rosa squirmed next to me, indistinct mumblings in her sleep as I searched for my phone on the nightstand.“Bethel?” When I woke up and saw her name pop up on the screen, I said.I felt toneless with my ears. The line crackled and I heard her voice — tiny, shaky — not at all like my whole life, little sister. “James… Can I come over?”Basic words but her voice was shaking and adrenaline flooded my veins.Yes, of course I replied immediately and straightened up. “What’s going on? Are you okay?”I just—I just need to see you, she managed, her voice breaking. “Please.”Get me,' I said, already tossing off the blankets to get out of bed.Overload, she panicked, but wasn't The Girl at all. "No!" “I’m already outside.”I felt like I froze, stuck on the weight of her words—no “inside” but rather an “outside?”“Yes. I— I had nowhere else to go.Rosa flopped down next to me, her expression going from confusion to worry as I told her
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James’s PovThere was a charged air, electricity hanging in the atmosphere — waiting for a spark. The energy in the room was palpable—anticipation, excitement, and disbelief. Rosa was pregnant with twins. Our twins. Years of love, toil and growth had built up to this moment, it was almost surreal in its enormity.I scanned the room to find our friends, family and colleagues filling up the venue for the grand opening of The Harden Family Foundation —the foundation we had worked so hard to build. This initiative was something we had both cooked up, helping young entrepreneurs and artists with the tools needed to build their dreams. This was the beginning of our next chapter, a one that would create an impact much larger than we ever could alone.Still, all of that felt secondary now to the fact that Rosa was mere hours away from delivering. Her body had been through so much already, the ability to carry this pregnancy now along with everything else—it was nothing short of a miracle. Yes
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James’s PovWatching all those little kids in their funny caps and gowns from the back of the auditorium felt strange. It filled me with a combination of pride, nostalgia and disbelief. Emma, our daughter with the wobbly knees walking into her first day at school was long gone. She was at the threshold of something more—her life. And it was happening literally in front of me.Rosa was next to me with her hand resting lightly on my arm, staring at Emma as she stood in front of the podium. I could almost taste her tension, the pride and love she'd been brewing there for more years than I could count. The moment was not only for Emma. It was ours. We had forged this, together, following our lead, with us being there to support and love her through her trials, and victories. And here she was now, standing ready to address an auditorium full of people, preparing to tell the world what she needed them to hear.My heart raced with anxiety as Emma walked to the mic. She was steady, composed b
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James’s PovThe day had been a long one. Too long, in fact. With the business problems, Bethel came back, and was still looking for whoever had started messing with Rosa's designs—my brain was like a one-person track team going around in circles. Through all those storms there had been one constant—Rosa. She was the peacekeeper, the nucleus of everything that revolved around it.That evening when she entered with a pale face, an absent look in her eyes, I knew something was wrong. I recognized the expression, my mind saying to keep it together baby girl as though something heavy was on her. Not that she needed to say anything. Not even for a moment did I doubt that always in the air, there was tension.“Hey, what’s wrong?” I said, putting down the coffee cup. Not waiting for an answer, I knew that she needed to talk and I was all ears.But what she would open her mouth and say next would leave me breathless.“I’m pregnant.”My initial reaction was disbelief. I found it hard to take in
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Rosa’s PovThose next few weeks were a series of meetings, lack of sleep, and questioning. Bethel had returned to the family home for some time, looking for a sense of stability. Yet, she was merely rebuilding things in her life — There lay an ambiguous journey the next. The search didn't let up for whoever was leaking our designs and the business was feeling that heat. Yet all that remained unchanged, despite the ruckus swirling around us, was James and I locked in as teammates who would bounce forth whatever lurked next.But while the storm raged on we did something weird — something that felt like a cosmic nudge in my direction to say life was still happening literally throughout all this.I had missed a few periods. I initially presumed it was stress. I had hectic days behind me and felt a whole range of emotions. But as days passed, a subtle dread grew in the belly of my stomach.So I grabbed the phone, called my doctor's office. They were able to squeeze me in the next morning f
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Rosa’s PovThe first days in the world after moving out of my family home, was like a strange kind of birth. I had reconciled my past and was okay with it, now I would get on with my life. The burden that held me down was finally removed. But as life likes to teach us, we donÕt get change without a fight.The first of many challenges hit James and me while we were sitting at our favorite restaurant, enjoying dinner together. Suddenly, there was a little buzz on the table where his phone was resting. His eyes scanned the words on it, narrowing as he read a message.“What’s wrong?” I half asked, my fork freezing in the air, the pleasant buzz of the restaurant dulled.James, with clipped vocals, replied: "It's about Bethel."I had put my fork down; I could hear the tension behind his voice. And his sister, Bethel, had always been the wild card of the Harden bunch—free-spirited, reckless and bold. Yet lately, she had been making more than a couple of bad choices.“What happened now?”"Of
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Rosa’s PovAs we neared the house, which had once been my world, now a rundown old heap. The car came to a slow crawl. I had completely forgotten how much I missed that creak of the tires rolling on the gravel driveway. When I stepped out of the car, a surreal sense of nostalgia and unease washed over me. It was the first time for me back here in years, not since everything had changed. Not since the day I left in search of making a life for myself: so far away from here and all this history that hung around like an echo.“Are you sure about this?” Uh oh what happened James asked down beside me with concern in his voice.I shook my head, probably too fast and grinned at him with a tight smile that was only half reassuring. “Yeah. I think it’s time.”He gazed at me for a second, dark eyes roving over my face, the furrow between his brows growing deeper. He didn't follow up, but I could feel the question line hanging in the air. James had watched me go through hard times over and over,
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James’s PovThe morning light was spilling through the blinds of my office, casting long shadows on the floor. While outside, the city hummed quietly in comparison to the storm in my brain. I had been expecting this. And I knew that after all we had done together Reginald would never let things like this slide. Defeat was not one of his words–not easily, anyway. So when I saw his name flash on my phone screen bright and early that morning, I knew it meant something.The door opened and Rosa, a placid but attractive figure of a woman always ready to chat broke into my thoughts. The question if she too had seen the message didn’t even need asking. There was already a heaviness between us.I said, and the words came out like an accusation — though I hadn't even finished speaking.Rosa’s gaze hardened. We knew that walking away quietly was not going to be an option for him. What does he want this time?”I sat back in my chair, rubbing the bridge of my nose as I pondered our choices. Such
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Rosa’s POVOn a lazy Sunday afternoon, Emma surprised me with a question that caught me short. She had just finished her homework and was on the couch with her legs tucked under her, watching TV without really paying attention. Her innocent voice interrupted the soft hum of the house.Someday, at some point in our lives, one of us will ask the question — “Mom, why do you and Dad get married?”I paused, as the shock of words were more impactful than I had anticipated. Emma had never been dull — she always asked the kinds of questions that forced you to consider things in a way you never had before. I knew this day would come, but so early I didn't expect My thoughts were tumbling a bit as I tried to find the most appropriate words; how do you explain the mixed feelings behind our choice, or rather why the decision was not so simple for me or us?I looked at James, who was sitting at the kitchen table reading a newspaper, with his back toward us. His eyes glanced at mine for a split sec
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James’s POVIt was something I had always prided myself on: knowing where I came from; understanding the legacy of my family. I thought I knew everything about our wealth, our power, the empire we had created; that little part of my life which I imagined was mine. But when I sat across the table from my mom, her hands shaking a little as she passed me an envelope with a strange, faded insignia ironed on it, I knew just how little knowledge I had.“James,” her voice wavering, she continued “I have to tell you something. The family history around how we came by our money, I guess.I frowned and focused on my breathing. “What do you mean, Mom?”After some delay, she opened the envelope and took out a few creased yellowing sheets of paper. “Of course, I never wanted you to know this but today feels like it could be time. You have to know the real story about your father, about what it took to build the Harden dynasty.I leaned in, heart racing. Decades of effort, well-placed investments,
