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Once upon a time, Arundhati Shah was the girl who believed in soulmates, reincarnations, and second chances, the girl who loved Aiden Acharya from the time they were fifteen years old, straight through law school, straight into a ring on her finger and a wedding on the calendar.
Now she's just the Ace.
Twenty-six years old. Managing partner of her own firm. Harvard undergrad, Yale Law, a hundred percent win record, and a client list of the rich, the ruthless, and the unforgivable. She charges a hundred thousand dollars a case and has never once lost. She's the most feared, and most beautiful, attorney in Manhattan, and everyone from cable news anchors to sitting senators is convinced she's building toward something bigger. A Senate seat, maybe. A legacy. Whatever it is, Aru Shah plans to win it the way she wins everything: alone.
She hasn't spoken to Aiden Acharya in three years. Hasn't spoken to Brynne, or Mini, or Nikita, or Sheela. Hasn't let herself look at a single headline about the boy who once sacrificed his life for her, who built a hundred borrowed dollars into a media empire.
Now Aiden's a billionaire CEO with the kind of face that stops elevators and the kind of company that makes front-page news, and he's just been arrested for the murder of his own best friend and co-founder, Marcus Wren.
Every piece of evidence says he did it. Every lawyer in the city says the case is unwinnable. His own board is drafting his replacement before the trial even starts. And the only people left standing beside him are the two friends who once chose his side over hers, desperate, out of options, and about to do the one thing Aru swore she'd never let them do again: bring her back into his orbit.
Because there's exactly one attorney in New York with a record good enough to save him.
And she used to be the love of his life.