Chapter 8 The Price of a Second Chance

~VALERIE’S POV~

I swallowed a hard, dry lump in my throat as Donovan stepped out of the shadows. The dim light of the passageway caught his striking features, casting sharp lines across his jaw. His piercing blue eyes swept over the space, quiet and calculating, as he walked past me and into the room I had just broken my back to scrub clean.

My pulse hammered against my ribs. I held my breath,