Secret Child

He shamed her once. Now he wants her child.I Was His Shame, Now He Begs Me

I Was His Shame, Now He Begs Me

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At the Bellamy winter show, Roman Bellamy calls his wife Calla a thief and ends their marriage in front of the room. He names model Sylvie Draper as the woman he trusts. “You are nothing without me,” he says. Calla walks out with her head high and does not beg. Five years later, Calla runs Winslow Studio, one of the most wanted names in fashion. She raises her son, Jamie, alone and keeps kind lawyer Emmett at a safe distance. She has built a life that does not need Roman Bellamy. Then Roman walks into a meeting with her. He sees Jamie’s photo and asks, “Is he mine?” Calla tells him no. Roman admits he was wrong about the past and says he wants to make amends. Calla tells him there is nothing to fix. Can the man who shamed her in public ever win back the woman who built a life without him?

He bought me a life. He forgot I had one.He Called My Love a Line Item

He Called My Love a Line Item

Ch. 1 free · 24 of 25

Rue Halloway can bring a cracked portrait back to life, but she cannot make her husband love her. Quincy Wainwright married her in a contract that saved her father's care and made her the polished wife his foundation needed. Then his first love, Diana Hoyt, returns to Manhattan with a secret child, Felix, and Rue sees where Quincy's warmth has always lived. His gifts become instructions; his concern becomes a schedule; her body flinches before her mind can explain. When the old-money Wainwright family closes ranks, Rue keeps her face still and her tools close. Her mother offers the family's last heirloom for a lawyer, and Rue begins the slow, costly work of buying back her own name. Quincy calls it sabotage and reaches for the one lever he has left: her father's care. What he cannot admit is that his public calm depends on the wife he keeps at arm's length—her work, her silence, her name. Rue will leave with her tools and her work. But some damage cannot be restored—and some should not be.

At the Bellamy winter show, Roman Bellamy calls his wife Calla a thief and ends their marriage in front of the room. He names model Sylvie Draper as the woman he trusts. “You are nothing without me,” he says. Calla walks out with her head high and does not beg. Five years later, Calla runs Winslow Studio, one of the most wanted names in fashion. She raises her son, Jamie, alone and keeps kind lawyer Emmett at a safe distance. She has built a life that does not need Roman Bellamy. Then Roman walks into a meeting with her. He sees Jamie’s photo and asks, “Is he mine?” Calla tells him no. Roman admits he was wrong about the past and says he wants to make amends. Calla tells him there is nothing to fix. Can the man who shamed her in public ever win back the woman who built a life without him?

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Rue Halloway can bring a cracked portrait back to life, but she cannot make her husband love her. Quincy Wainwright married her in a contract that saved her father's care and made her the polished wife his foundation needed. Then his first love, Diana Hoyt, returns to Manhattan with a secret child, Felix, and Rue sees where Quincy's warmth has always lived. His gifts become instructions; his concern becomes a schedule; her body flinches before her mind can explain. When the old-money Wainwright family closes ranks, Rue keeps her face still and her tools close. Her mother offers the family's last heirloom for a lawyer, and Rue begins the slow, costly work of buying back her own name. Quincy calls it sabotage and reaches for the one lever he has left: her father's care. What he cannot admit is that his public calm depends on the wife he keeps at arm's length—her work, her silence, her name. Rue will leave with her tools and her work. But some damage cannot be restored—and some should not be.

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