Chapter 16

Eventually, Johanna took a job at a magazine that covered high-society gossip, all for the chance to see him more often. She no longer tried to deny the reason she went to such lengths to follow his orbit. The time for pretending was over. She had to admit the truth to herself: this was a crush. A hopeless, one-sided love. “It has been too long, Marquis Neuwitz,” a man would say, sidling up to him at a party. “Allow me to introduce my daughter. She turned twenty this year and is a Dominant Omega.”