The Velvet Cage

Arrogance had always been Gareth’s second skin. Nothing, not even the brutal rites of the military camp where his father once dumped him, had ever made him feel truly cornered.

If someone hit him, he hit back. Simple as that.

Only one moment had broken that rule—three years ago, when news reached him that Sloane had married. The helplessness of that day had etched itself into his bones. He had swo