The Billionaire's Deadly Embrace

ome, powerful, and utterly devoted to me. Everyone said I

on from kindergarten. But I froze when I saw my hus

get ice cream?"

ust like family-walked up and kissed his cheek. Kameron wrapped an arm around

He had gotten her pregnant years ago, right after I c

saying he wanted me all to himself. It was all a lie. He already had an

adows of our home and heard

"I'll never let Hailey have a child. The

d and built a family with another woman, while I was lef

pte

a, was in a bind, he

ver and get Leo from kinderg

. "Anything for my

powerful, and utterly devoted to me. He showered me with gifts, attention, and a love so intense it

ieved

e sound of children's laughter filled the air. I spotted Leo

wasn'

g Leo's shoelace with a gentle, practiced hand. The gesture was

n stood up

rld st

meron. My

y smile on his face. It was the sa

ice cream?" Leo's s

dd

itched whine that drowned out everything else. My vision sw

a mistake. A mi

ul, with a confident smile. She placed a hand o

te boys have a goo

r close. The three of them stood there, framed by th

d, with his perfe

reak out across my skin. I couldn't breat

things. It wasn't h

rinkled when he smiled, the expensive watch on his wrist

recognized her to

friends, he'd sworn. He said she was practically fa

oce

joke. A cruel

wife he went home to? The woman

her woman? The fool

kid, and I was the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. He' d

hurt you, Hailey," he

a boy had asked me to the prom, and Kameron had broken his arm. He' d come to me later,

hool trip, he had cut his own wrist, bleedi

hought I wasn't good enough for her son, for the Stephens name. But Kameron had defied her. H

voice thick with emotion on our wedd

, filled with every luxury imaginable, and locked me inside with his ob

d him with every

ur living room, laughing. He was chasing her, and when he caught her, he p

me, his fa

id, rushing after me as I ran from the

him. I moved out,

roof of his office building and threatening to jump if I didn't come back. The

ose to believe his lies because

life. This wasn' t a game or a dare. This was a deep,

who called

ed to be about

. He had gotten Carleen pregnant right after he begged me to come back.

r me. This was it. There w

as

ollably. I drove away from the kindergarten

d to di

ld. I logged into my bank account and transferred all the money Kam

house that now fe

the scent of roses. Candles flickered on the

e, a black velvet

ice a low, loving murmur. "A little some

ascade of diamonds that glittered under the s

wave of

furrowing with concern as he tried to put

from his touch.

ng around me. His embrace, which once felt like

mised to protect me, and he was the one who had hurt me more t

dn't s

oice flat and emotionless. I pulled away

ed with that familiar, possessive tende

back was to me, but I saw his expression shift in the reflection of the h

alcony to take the call,

numb despair. I crept back down the stai

the night was still, and

to bring him there.

pa

day! You need to be more carefu

faint, tinny sound of a woman's

"She won't find out. I'll never let Hailey have a child. The Stephens' fort

tilted o

ver let me

yearned to be a mother. And every time, he had p

want you all to mysel

was because he already had an heir. He didn'

ated doll to show off to the world, while hi

It was a meticulously crafted cage to keep me

asted blood, just to keep from screaming. I leaned against the wall, m

going to give his son everything, while I was left wi

othing