He left me when I refused to end my pregnancy. Five years later, he saw my twins at a mall, and his mother’s two-million-dollar lie finally came crashing down.
“Mara.”
She did not stop.
The boys looked back once.
Two pairs of gray eyes.
Two lives he had never held
Damien stood in the middle of the mall, surrounded by strangers, as the woman he had loved and abandoned disappeared into the crowd with his sons.
And for the first time in his life, the man who could buy companies, silence headlines, and control entire rooms finally understood there was one thing money could never buy.
The years he had thrown away…
Part 2
Mara was terrified, but beneath the fear was something fierce and real.
She told Damien in the same conference room where they had first met.
At first, he was silent.
“How far along?” he asked.
“Six weeks.”
He turned toward the window.
“My board can’t know. My mother can’t know. This would become a scandal.”
“A baby is not a scandal,” Mara said.
“For you, maybe not.”
The words broke something between them.
Then Damien pulled an envelope from his jacket.
Money. Privacy. Arrangements. Options.
Mara stared at him.
“You brought paperwork?”
“I’m trying to be practical.”
“I came here because I thought the man who held me at three in the morning might show up. Instead, you brought documents.”…
