The Apex I Missed Her Heart Was Never My Trophy

Prologue

I spent fifteen years secretly in love with Julian Vance.

When I was eleven, he took me from the orphanage and brought me to his home, promising that no one would ever hurt me again. I thought that as long as I stayed by his side, I would one day become his wife.

Until he brought home a woman who looked strikingly like me—and announced right in front of my face that she was the one he was going to marry.

I finally realized that fifteen years of devotion were nothing more than my own foolish delusion.