The Bitter Check

The air in the bedroom thinned, leaving Clara suffocated by the sheer audacity of his request. The man sitting on her bed, the man she once promised her life to, was asking her to fall on her own sword to protect his mistress. Yet, she knew she could not risk a messy fallout with Declan. She needed the final stages of her divorce to proceed without a hitch.

Forcing her erratic heartbeat to slow,