Shattered Control

~DONOVAN POV~

The words hit me so hard.

"The only reason she stays is because she doesn't see a way out."

Something snapped inside my chest. All the careful control I had built over years of boardroom meetings and nasty negotiations was crushed in a flash.

He thought he knew her better than I did? Thought he understood what we had?

The sane part of my brain—the part that usually kept me civilized…