Chapter: Unwilling BrideEmry’s POV"You're doing it again."My father didn't look at me when he said it. He stood beside me at the altar with his hands folded, his eyes on the pews."Doing what?""Your cufflinks. That's the third time you've fixed them."I dropped my hands to my side. Every seat in St Mary's Cathedral was full. Doctors, business partners, society faces I only knew from donation dinners, and rows of reporters near the back that my father had even arranged.My father had turned the scandal into Cardiff's biggest love story, and the whole city had come to watch."Nervous?" he asked."Why would I be?" I tugged my cuff again, just to annoy him. "It's not as if I'm marrying the love of my life.""She'll come around, Emrys. Give it time.""Come around?" I let out a short laugh. "She hates me. You dragged us both into this mess, and now I'm supposed to sit and wait for her to like it?"He turned his head at last. "The reason this marriage is necessary...""Don't." I kept my voice low. "I don't want
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Chapter: The Price In WhiteClaribel’s POVThe cab smelled of old chips and air freshener, but for the first time in a week, I could breathe.I leaned my head on Mum’s shoulder, and she smoothed my hair the way she used to when I had a fever as a kid. In the front seat, Sophia was explaining to the driver which roundabout to avoid and why it had personally wronged her.“Thanks for not letting me rot in there,” I said quietly.Mum’s hand stilled on my hair. “You never have to thank me for anything, baby.”Her voice was thick. I put it down to how worried she’d been, and I held her arm tighter.Sophia's flat came up first. She squeezed my hand before she got out. "Call me the second you get there.""I will."Forty minutes later, the cab turned onto a quiet street and stopped behind a huge old building with stained-glass windows. "Is this a church?""We're only going inside for a minute." Mum's voice was too bright. She took my hand and led me through a narrow back door, down a short hallway, and into a small ro
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Chapter: Somewhere SafeClaribel's POV"Sit down, Clar."Dr. Martinez didn't look up when I walked in Monday evening for my shift. She looked like she hadn't slept all weekend, and she was glaring at a newspaper on her desk like it owed her some money.I pulled out the chair and I sat down hard. My hands wouldn't stop shaking on my laps."Dr. Martinez, I can explain...""Explain what?" She turned the paper around and pushed it across the desk. "This?""It's not what it looks like I swear.”"It looks like my best doctor was found in bed with the Llewellyn heir." Her eyes were hard, but her mouth was shaking. "The medical board met this morning. They want you out.""Out?""Administrative leave." She slid an envelope towards me. "Effective now. Indefinite."My stomach dropped. "How long is indefinite?""Until this dies down. Months, maybe.""Please. This job is all I have left. After Cardiff, nobody else would...""I know." She rubbed her forehead. "I fought for you, Clar. When no one else would touch you, I di
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Chapter: Forced ChoiceEmrys’s POV"Get out, Emrys."Victoria didn't even look up from her desk. Her office smelled of coffee and lilies."Vic, just let me explain...""Explain what?" She finally raised her head. Her eyes were red, but her voice was steady. "My father called me six-thirty this morning. He wanted to know why the man I'm supposed to marry is half naked in a hotel bed with another woman, on every blog in Wales. I hadn't even seen it. He had to send me the link.""Victoria. I don't remember..."“How convenient.”I opened my mouth and closed it again. I'd said the exact same word to Claribel that morning. It sounded much worse from this side."The engagement is over," she said.She said flatly, like reading out a lab result. My mouth went dry."And the merger?""He's pulled out."Eight months of meetings, millions had already been committed between both hospitals, everything was all gone. I took a step toward her desk. "Victoria, I swear I never wanted...""Don't." She held up a hand. "There is
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Chapter: The Morning AfterClaribel’s POVThe first thing I felt was headache and pain. Every muscle in my body ached like I'd run a marathon in my sleep, my thighs, my back, even my arms. I groaned and rolled over. The bed was too soft, it’s not my bed. This wasn't my apartment, not even close.My eyes flew open immediately. White ceiling, gold curtains with sunlight leaking through the gap. Hotel maybe?I sat up fast and the room swung. When it settled, I looked down. No gown, just my black underwear and a white sheet bunched around my waist."What the ..."I looked around the room. My dress was on the floor by the window, my heels were scattered, one by the door, the other under a chair. A man's tux jacket hung off the lamp.My heart started to beat fast. I turned my head slowly.Dark hair on the pillow. A broad bare back rising and falling. I knew that jaw. I would have known it in the dark, in a crowd, at the bottom of the sea.Emrys Llewellyn…I clamped a hand over my mouth. My mind sent back, trying
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