“You're Maggie's cousin who stole her boyfriend and set her up?"

Yana faltered, awkwardly trying to maintain her smile.

"Maggie's painted a false image of me to you? Truthfully, her boyfriend was besotted with me. I made no attempts to destroy their relationship. But he was relentless, which led Maggie to misconstrue my intentions."

Sanford gave her a cold once-over before bursting into derisive laughter.

He gestured to a security guard stationed by the door.