Verity Winslow built Thorne Group beside Declan, only to watch him hand authority, contracts, and public devotion to Mallory Langley and her fake therapy games. After one humiliation too many, Verity stops fighting for a place in Declan's office and accepts a colder bargain: marry into the Caldwell family and stabilize its empire. The wife he sidelined is about to outrank him.
