Imperial Hotel.
Sienna feels her step lighter as she enters the staff entrance until her phone buzzes. The sound breaks through her thoughts just as she reaches the elevator.
She pulled her phone out casually, expecting something routine, like a text from Mia or Riley. But her expression changed when she saw a bank notification.
That wasn't unusual.
She opened the message, and everything around her seemed to stop instantly.
Her eyes moved slowly across the screen, reading the numbers displayed there.
"…Wait?" she whispered. "This is my payment for working as a chef at the mountain villa, right?"
Sienna remembered clearly how much Zachary offered her.
But this number? This number was nowhere near that.
The amount of money deposited into her bank account is ten times her monthly income from working at the Imperial Hotel.
Sienna's fingers trembled slightly, her grip tightening around her phone as she looked at the number written there.
