Refusing to Break

~VALERIE'S POV~

The champagne glass felt like ice against my fingers, but not as cold as Donovan's words echoing in my mind.

"Ivy Kensington. She's exactly the kind of woman I was raised to be with. Beautiful, connected, from the right family. No complications, no baggage, no questions about whether she belongs in my world."

I stood at Beatrice's bar, my back to the circle of people who'd just wit