badly she could bar

Chloe, her older

nected on th

ound awful." Chloe's voic

aring from her raw throat. "Is that o

on the o

r voice trembling. "The one who had that terrible

ounded bewildered. "You're engaged to Etha

words were ash

a desperate resolve hardening her v

recluse. They say he' s in a wheelchair, that he' s

ot yet. The betrayal was

t' s still possibl

acted Dad again last month. They' re very discreet, very

, a cold certainty settl

ore Chloe could

back to Ethan' s

, his eyes sincere,

worried endlessly about his safety in tha

eticulously co

eater good. He' d been building a

oming to her, but a strat

her connections – t

t

as a cold, hard s