A poor girl finds it hard to build a career from scratch without support—especially if she’s trying to be independent of other people’s opinions, friends, and men. But it’s impossible to be independent of His Majesty, the Case. And it played a cruel joke on me—I barely managed not to kill Alex Rokotov, an oligarch, a philanthropist, and simply a gorgeous billionaire. And that’s where it all began. And it ended in a way that was extremely unexpected—for both of us.