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.
eyes
took it for him
He’d actually forgotten?
thought Geoffrey and Sean truly deserved
Geoffrey genuinely couldn’t recall:
throat tightened. “When I
took the reins at
relatives of the Suttons or business rivals remained
him.
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family knew this story. Yet he’d
on her
Maureen shook her head.
They
moment before lowering his head to
to him; this was his
as his lips were just landing, Maureen
You should head to the
Maureen spoke evenly.
gotten what she wanted. No need for
chill made Geoffrey’s brow
last night, she’d burned like
refusing to let go. “Not going to the
moment, pressing kisses to Maureen’s cheek, nose
man resembled an
gotten what she wanted and was all
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turning her face away.
reaction. Though bewildered by
streamed through
chest. “I’m
relent, keeping her in
have food
hair, Geoffrey spoke with unprecedented tenderness: “Let me hold
despised her for years, claimed indifference mere days
murmured against her hair: “I know
up at Geoffrey
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