Chapter 113

Vera

What really makes Monaco special isn’t all the glitz or crazy wealth. It’s what’s missing. No urgency, no schedules, no phones buzzing with the latest thing that “needs” solving. Nobody tugging at me except Declan.

I figured that out sometime around nine in the morning, barely awake, face buried against his shoulder in a hotel bed. Sunlight slips through the curtains. There’s the Mediterranea