The Black Iris Reclaims Her Throne

At the moment of the crash, Sean Vane wrenched the wheel toward himself, throwing the woman beside him into the path of an oncoming truck to shield his first love, Izzy Montgomery. Outside the ER he used his influence to cancel her corneal transplant and hand the chance at sight to Izzy. She woke half-blind in one eye, pulled out her IV, and vanished from the city.

Two years later Sean rules the venture capital world, and at the city's most exclusive private club he plays protector to Izzy. The woman he ruined stands before him in a waiter's tuxedo, serving champagne, a silver eye patch over her right eye. He mocks her, offers her a bed in his private care facility, and orders her to kneel and lick spilled wine from the floor.

She refuses, calm and unbowed. Tonight is the gala where Cillian Blackwell takes over the Blackwell empire, and the black iris pin on her chest is the crest of the Blackwell matriarch.