No Longer Yours

Declan ignored his mother. “Apologize, Chloe,” he repeated, voice low and iron-cold.

“I said nothing wrong,” Chloe insisted. “She brags about a family of martyrs. If that were true, why have you never mentioned it?”

Those words were another slap, this time to Declan’s face. His heart throbbed because of those words. I never bothered to know Sloane. We married for convenience: Valerie had left the