taring at him in the dark. A bl
xploded, her voice c
clearly stunned
knows I am Cade's wife! How long has it been? A day? And you want a divorce
moment. "I will tell people it w
Who would ever want me? You bought me, you married me, and now you have to take responsibility for
own, turning her back to
! But she didn't care. She was going to cling
ion in the house was thick
two boiled eggs. She heard a faint
rned a
de's biological son; he was the orphaned child of Cade's fallen comrade. Because Cade had insisted on adopting him, his
d eyes met hers, Clara's heart
her misery. Yet, in her final days, when she was dying in that hospital, this same boy-grown and scarred-had c
Clara forced a soft, trembling smil
olding out a warm, peele
re a live grenade. He trembled vi
boots sounded
staring at the egg in her hand. His jaw locked. With a smooth, tactical motion, he stepped
ring. Waiting for her to snatch t
s reaction. She didn't argue. She just l
's mother suggested they go visit Clara's f
ies-heavy cuts of meat, fresh fish, bags of rare milk powder, and fine fabrics. I
" she
looking over
milk powder, and set it aside. "This stays h
ly the smallest, fattiest piece of meat and a ti
are taking," she
her, his eyes wide with utter shock. For the first time since he
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