His Betrayal, My Sudden Wedding Vows

ars, I had been his. His lover, his operative, his shadow. I had taken bullets for him. I had lied for him. I had bled for him.

he gaping wound he had just torn open in my chest. "She does

to Earl. You make him want you. At the Mckinney's annual charity gala, you lure him into a suit

r of the powerful Mckinney family, a clan with old money and political influence that even Damian

with Earl Reid. Utterly

, and another, more personal one, for Brooklyn's affection. Brooklyn, in her gilded naivete, saw Earl as a dashing, mysterious figure,

tarted, the night Damian "rescu

rival company, a move that had inadvertently hurt the Mckinney family's portfolio. He had done it to

him. In public,

uarters that night, his face like a thun

had f

ooklyn, a beautiful, obedient creature completely under his control, a living trophy to spite her. He wa

, I became his c

with jewels and designer clothes. He bought me a pen

See? This is how I treat m

xpense, his hand lingering too long on my lower back. Damian hadn't said a word. He' d s

th a silk handkerchief, and announced to the

enjamin's woman. To touch me was to invi

a poss

ealousy was passion. I told myself his possessiveness was a sign of his deep feelings for me. I collected every

light of his bedroom, that

constructed facade. For the first time, I saw the ice in the depths of his eye

ve there. There

y cheek. My seven-year dream, my entire wor

to for so long died a

elf say, my voice a hollo