Chapter Sixty six

Chapter 66.

Mira felt as if she was grieving all over again.

She’d pulled into the garage and finally given way to the dammed-up

tears she hadn’t been able to shed for Natein a mind-clearing storm of

guilt and loss. And when it was over she finally understood it all. That their

marriage of convenience had been entirely for his expedience, not hers.

Not cheap. But then this wasn’t about money. It was about control. Toby

was all the family he had. His heir. The boy who carried the family name.

Marriage was the simplest and most effective way of stopping her from

becoming involved with someone else, giving him some other man’s name.

Which answered any question she had about what was in the letter

Natehad written to him. He had been a less than perfect partner, a less

than perfect anything, except father. Relaxed to the point of being comatose

on most things, he had been uncharacteristically firm in his insistence that

Dan be added to Toby’s name.

Too late she saw that all that stuff abou