Maureen glanced at the sterile container holding the precious sample she’d struggled to obtain–it was time to leave.
As she tried to slip from Geoffrey’s embrace, his arms only tightened around her.
Left with no choice, she secretly stashed the container beneath the bed, planning to retrieve it after Geoffrey left for work tomorrow.
Looking up at Geoffrey’s sleeping face, Maureen was overwhelmed with guilt and silently mouthed:
“Last time I apologized, I meant it–but not for faking my death to leave
you.”
“It’s for this…”
Jacob and Ethan were forced upon me.
That didn’t make me feel indebted. But this time, hiding the truth from Geoffrey felt wrong.
Yet she had to do it. Only this way could she keep her children.
The next morning.
Dawn was breaking.
Geoffrey woke with a throbbing headache and immediately looked
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down. Maureen was still in his arms.
Relief washed over him.
He pulled her closer.
Just then, he noticed an old scar resembling a knife wound marring the smooth skin of her back.
Maureen stirred awake and was about to rise when Geoffrey asked:
“How did you get that scar on your back?”
Maureen froze.
all–too–familiar face, her eyes
it for him back
He’d actually forgotten?
and Sean truly deserved being called brothers, both equally
couldn’t
throat tightened. “When I
first took the reins at
by distant relatives of the Suttons or business rivals remained unclear–until she threw
him.
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knew this story.
on her back, his gaze darkening.
Maureen shook her head.
They
before lowering his head
came naturally to him; this was his only
lips were
hour’s getting late. You
Maureen spoke evenly.
gotten what she wanted.
made
last night, she’d burned like
refusing to let go. “Not
this moment, pressing kisses to Maureen’s cheek,
resembled an insatiable
she wanted and was
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turning her face away.
every nuance of her reaction. Though bewildered by
through
chest. “I’m hungry. Let’s
then did he relent, keeping
I’ll have
spoke with unprecedented tenderness: “Let me hold
him baffling. He’d despised her for years, claimed indifference mere days ago, yet now
hair: “I know
at
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