His Madness Took a Life, But Not My Love

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For three years, Lovell Porter waited for her mercenary bodyguard Horace Mitchell to return from a classified mission, holding fast to his promise to marry her when he came back. When he finally does return, she overhears him in his study, speaking coldly to his second-in-command about Jaylee and Zach, a child over two years old who is his own son. The mission, she realises, was a lie invented so he could build a life with another woman.

Heartbroken, Lovell calls her grandfather and agrees to marry the reclusive heir of the Stokes family, though she says nothing of what she has learned. Horace continues to act the devoted fiancé, but when Jaylee arrives at their door with the crying child, his panic and his tenderness toward the boy betray him. Lovell swallows her pain and lets him go with them, knowing her grandfather's car will come for her the day after tomorrow.

As night falls and Horace returns looking guilty, Lovell must decide how much longer she can keep her silence.