ra's
e lights when I got
apped box with the Patek Philippe watch-which I'd snatched from the dining table in a daze before heading out-slid
at there
d midnight. Headlights swep
as h
scent of expensive wine and Jasmine's cloying perfume with him.
k? You look like a ghost." His
ice was terrifyingly calm.
face before his usual arrogance settled back in. "There was an emergency a
lips. "Yes. Just an anniversary. Not ne
. "Did you follow
ice called from the top of the st
ent her home with a driver an hour ago, presumably to steal more private time wi
or Conrad. "Aunt Jasmine said this one'
ulated strike, a testament to
in a pout. "Mommy, why did you call Daddy?
s lips. He looked at me as if to s
a folder in her hand. She stopped dead, her gaze taking in the scene: Conrad's
me the folder. "The background check you ordered l
voice a fierce whisper only I could hear. "It confirms your suspicions, ma
p. I stared at he
ly needs you. To them, you're nothing more than a tool. A
o
rmed the cold calculus I had begun to suspect. Th
voice cut through my shock, laced with irrit
d in. "Aunt Jasmine is sick, but she still
accusation from my daughter. Thi
ectly at him. The love that had lived in my eyes for so long was
walked past him
I felt a strange tremor through our bond-a flicker of
room and locked t
k, pulled out a sheet of heavy crea
Aurora. Always.' The mate bond had hummed bright and gold between us then. Now, it was a severed wire, sparking uselessly in the void. I couldn't believe
the page, I wr
e Agre
It illuminated the path I w
/1/123153/coverbig.jpg?v=7304e57181670e0b38f67232bdf183cc&imageMogr2/format/webp)