In her fifth year as California mafia don Dominic's secret mistress, Sienna took a bullet and took the punishment for him, only to realize on the eve of his wedding that she was nothing but the "bulletproof vest" and human shield he had carefully raised to protect his beloved stepsister Chloe. At a life-or-death kidnapping standoff, Dominic shoved Sienna in front of the gun without hesitation to save Chloe. Sienna was shot and fell from a building. Not only did her nine-week fetus miscarry into a pool of blood, she lost the ability to have children forever. Across the hall, Dominic cooed over Chloe, who had only a slightly sprained ankle, and blew on her sweet soup to cool it. With her heart completely dead, Sienna took a hundred million dollars to buy out her blood ties to the family. On the wedding day she pulled a switch: greedy Chloe, hungry for the title of godmother, was married off in her place, while Sienna pushed Thorn family heir Sebastian onto a helicopter and flew away for good. When the veil was lifted, Dominic coughed blood and went insane. As the miscarriage and the destruction of her mother's last painting came out one after another, Dominic went fully dark, punished his vicious stepsister, and spent every last dime of the family fortune to kneel in New York and beg for forgiveness. Sienna, who had picked up her brush again and been reborn, stayed ice-cold—until a remnant ambush on the New York docks. Dominic took a fatal heavy sniper round with his own flesh and blood, paying the blood debt with his life...
