Chapter 10
Six months later, the skyline looked different.
Not because it had changed.
But because Jessica had.
She no longer stood three steps behind him at events.
She stood beside him.
Not as an assistant.
Not as a scandal.
But as something deliberate.
The mean girls were gone.
The trust was restructured.
Daniel worked in community investments, healing something neither brother had known how to address alone.
And Sarah?
Sarah attempted one final strategic return.
An offer.
A merger.
A clean slate.
Decker declined without hesitation.
Because the man who once believed love was inefficient had learned something far more dangerous—
It was powerful.
On the anniversary of the gala where everything had first cracked open, Decker brought Jessica back to that same terrace.
The city shimmered beneath them.
“You changed my life,” he said quietly.
She smiled softly.
“No,” she corrected. “You chose to change.”
He reached into his pocket.
Jessica’s breath caught.
Not because of the ring.
But because of the look in his eyes.
No strategy.
No alignment.
No merger.
Just choice.
“This time,” he said, sliding the ring onto her finger as the city roared below them, “it’s for love.”
And for once—
Love was enough.
