Silk and Sparks
I never wanted to be seen. In the quiet hum of needle against fabric, I found my voice—stitch by stitch, thread by thread. But the moment Isabella Astor wore my creation into the ballroom and the crowd fell silent, I became more than a shadow in the back rooms of Fifth Avenue. And then I saw him: Alistair Finch, standing not among the elite, but apart from them, his eyes alight with something I recognized—restless brilliance. One conversation, and I knew he saw me too. Not as a servant, not as decoration. As a creator. As an equal. Now every choice pulls me between the life I’ve earned and the future I dare to imagine.