Hollow Heartbeat

~VALERIE'S POV~

The bass thrummed through my body like a second heartbeat, drowning out the echo of Donovan's voice that kept trying to surface in my mind.

"Ivy Kensington. She's exactly the kind of woman I was raised to be with."

I spun away from my current dance partner—a tourist from Ohio who smelled like expensive cologne and desperation…and immediately found another.

A businessman in his fort