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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