Shattered Pride

When Naomi rushed home, the court officials had already taken away all the jewelry Declan had given her.

"Naomi, those jewels were a gift from Declan. How can they just confiscate them like this? Go talk to Declan, maybe you can figure something out," her mother urged anxiously.

Naomi's face turned icy. 'Go begging Declan again? Over my dead body,' she thought.

Declan was even more ruthless than s