POV: Siena Blake

If there was a checklist titled “Things That Make You Want to Curl Up and Cease to Exist,” meeting your billionaire boyfriend’s impossibly elegant, globe-trotting parents would be in the top three.

Possibly number one.

Especially when you’re the woman their son once paid off, knocked up, and accidentally kept hidden for six years.

I was trying to stay calm. Really. I was.

But as I stood at the kitchen counter that morning, staring blankly into my untouched cup of tea, the panic was starting to bubble beneath my skin like a second heartbeat. My hands kept fidgeting—first with the hem of my shirt, then the edge...