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Chapter 1

At the Riverton Police Department Traffic Division, Charlotte Jenkins sat in the accident processing area, the ringing in her right ear still not gone.Five minutes earlier, Sean Jasper had tried to stop her and failed. The moment she started the car, she crashed straight into the guardrail outside the bar.The airbags hadn’t deployed, but the force of the impact still slammed her forehead into the steering wheel.Sean was badly shaken. As he yanked her out of the car, he cursed, “Charlotte, are you out of your mind? For a man who won’t even come home, you’re really willing to throw your life away?”Charlotte couldn’t hear a word Sean was saying. Her eyes were unfocused, and she still had her phone clutched in her hand.The screen was black.She had just called Zac Cooper for the eighth time, and once again, he didn’t pick up.For the past six months, that had become normal.At first, she could still come up with excuses for him. Maybe he was out on duty. Maybe he was in a meet

Chapter 2

He didn’t want to waste another word on someone who had nothing to do with it. He shifted Charlotte higher in his arms, gave Gavin a look, and carried her outside.Sean tried to follow, but Gavin grabbed him before he could.“Sean, come on. Just sign here first. We have procedures to follow too. Once Lieutenant Cooper gets her home, the two of them can talk it out.”Sean was being held back by a police officer, and he couldn’t exactly shove his way free. All he could do was watch Charlotte being taken away. He was so angry his head was starting to pound.Outside, the snow was coming down hard. Small icy pellets hit Charlotte’s face. She shrank from the cold and burrowed deeper into Zac’s arms.It took Zac a bit of effort to get her into the passenger seat and buckle her in. Then he walked around to the driver’s side, started the car, and the navigation screen automatically pulled up the route to Riverbend Heights.The heat inside the car was running full blast. As the temperature

Chapter 3

Charlotte used her fingerprint to unlock the door to Sean’s apartment.The living room was a mess. Takeout containers were piled on the coffee table, and clothes were strewn across the couch.One look told her Sean’s boyfriend had been back.Sean was someone who lived life out loud. A few years earlier, he had come out to his family and thrown himself headfirst into the social media world. By now, he was doing pretty well for himself.The first time Zac realized Charlotte had a male friend she was this close to, his disapproval was obvious.That lasted until one late night.He saw Sean using a syrupy sweet voice to ask one of the new young traffic cops on his team for directions, just so he could flirt with him.Zac sat in the car in silence for a full five minutes.After that, he never again told Charlotte to keep her distance from Sean.Charlotte made noise on purpose, clattering around as loudly as she could.Sean had assumed it was his boyfriend coming back with something

Chapter 4

“Charlotte. Snap out of it.”Sean’s voice pulled her out of her thoughts.He looked at her pale face, concern creeping into his expression. “What’s wrong?”Charlotte pushed his phone away. “I remember now.”“Remember what?”Charlotte gave him the short version. As soon as she finished, Sean remembered too, and he got so mad he nearly jumped off the couch.“No wonder he didn’t dare tell you. This is the kind of thing that feels disgusting just saying it out loud.”Brother and sister?Please.What was Zac doing, trying to act like some tortured hero in a melodrama?If he really saw her as a sister, then what could possibly be so serious that he couldn’t be honest about it with his own wife?“Is Zac insane? Did he forget he’s married? He’s still this tangled up with that so-called sister of his. What is he even getting out of it? The thrill?”Charlotte wanted to ask him the same thing.When Sean saw that she stayed quiet, he assumed she was falling back into her old habit of

Chapter 5

Zac looked at her in the rearview mirror. He loosened his grip on the wheel and started to rub his brow, but stopped halfway and lowered his hand.“So this is all because I didn’t answer your question?”Charlotte shook her head. She was too tired to go over the same things again.She was tired of asking, and tired of caring.On all those sleepless nights, she kept asking herself the same thing. Did he really not love her anymore? Had he become so cold that he couldn’t even be bothered to lie to her?“Jodie is back,” Zac said. “She’s sick. That’s why she reached out to me.”The explanation came too late and too lightly.After two months, it felt less like an explanation and more like he was trying to cover something up.“If you want to meet her, I can arrange it,” he added.Charlotte turned him down without hesitation.“Zac Cooper, do you seriously have the wrong idea about your own wife? Do I look like the kind of woman who’d sit down with some little mistress, ask about her

Chapter 6

Ruby lived in an upscale neighborhood of detached mansions in the center of the city. The whole area was filled with grand European-style houses that looked more impressive than anything elsewhere in the city.Before the car had even come to a full stop, Charlotte saw someone standing at the front entrance through the window.Jodie.She still had that pale, delicate face with its constant air of fragility, the kind that made people want to protect her the moment they saw her.Zac stepped on the brake and instinctively glanced at Charlotte.When he saw no reaction on her face, he unbuckled his seat belt and got out first.“Zac.”Jodie’s voice was soft and sweet. She hurried over and slipped her arm through his as naturally as if it belonged there.Zac looked down at her, his brow furrowing. “It’s cold out here. Why did you come outside dressed like that?”It was the tone he used for someone close to him.Charlotte hadn’t heard him speak to her that way in a long time.In fact

Chapter 7

The brief awkwardness on Jodie’s face disappeared almost instantly. A second later, she was smiling again, all innocence, as she quickly turned to the housekeeper.“Mrs. Wilson, could you bring Charlotte a bowl of chicken soup?”Then she turned back to Charlotte and said softly, “This is my fault. I should have asked first. Charlotte, have some soup to warm your stomach. It’s been simmering for hours with herbs. It’s really good for you.”A moment later, the housekeeper set a small steaming bowl beside Charlotte.Charlotte glanced at it, and her stomach tightened.Back when she had been trying to get pregnant, she had read everything she could get her hands on about what she should and shouldn’t eat. She had filled an entire notebook with it.Some herbal ingredients were supposed to be avoided while trying to conceive and during pregnancy.She didn’t know whether Jodie truly did not know that, or was only pretending not to. At this point, she didn’t even care enough to tell the

Chapter 8

There was a sharp crack.The slap sent Charlotte’s head snapping to the side. Loose strands of hair fell across her face, half hiding her eyes. Her left cheek burned, and her ears rang.Then she slowly turned back and looked straight at Ruby without blinking.For some reason, the look in her eyes made Ruby uneasy.Joseph’s expression darkened. “Charlotte, apologize to Ruby, and we’ll let this go.”Charlotte let out a short, disbelieving laugh.She had just been slapped, and now she was supposed to apologize?The patio door slid open, and Zac appeared in the doorway.He had just finished his call. But the moment he saw the standoff in the dining room and the red handprint on Charlotte’s face, he froze.His eyes went straight to Ruby.Ruby only glanced at him. “Zac, you really did marry yourself quite a wife. She gets more out of line by the day.”Without a word, Zac strode over to Charlotte. He had just started to reach for her face when Jodie spoke.“Zac...”One hand press

Chapter 9

“I told you not to go. I told you over and over, and you still went. You used to be the one smacking other people around, and now look at you. You actually let somebody hit you. Does it hurt or not?”Obviously it hurt. Charlotte rolled her eyes, but she didn’t have the energy to argue with him.“I’m fine.”“Fine my ass. Your face is swollen.”Sean was about to lose his mind over how half-dead she looked, but he felt too bad for her to keep yelling. He dug an ice pack out of the fridge, wrapped it carefully in a towel, and pressed it against her face with a scowl.The cold hit her skin, sharp enough to make the burning pain jump.Charlotte sucked in a breath.“And that blind idiot Zac. His wife gets slapped right in front of him, and he runs off to catch that manipulative little witch instead?”Zion, who had been helping Charlotte arrange the succulents, poked his head out of the room and asked quietly, “Sean... should I maybe head back to school for now?”Sean snapped at him.

Chapter 10

Snow had started falling again outside. The cold wind whipped tiny pellets of snow against her face.Charlotte had just called for a ride on her phone. The app showed it would take another seven or eight minutes.A police patrol car drove past her, then suddenly backed up and stopped beside her.The window rolled down, revealing a young, smiling face.“Mrs. Cooper! What a coincidence!”When Charlotte saw Gavin, she nodded.Gavin leaned out from the passenger seat, looking concerned. “Where are you headed, Mrs. Cooper? Where’s Lieutenant Cooper?”Lieutenant Cooper?He hadn’t gone in to the station today?But it was Saturday. He should have been on duty.Charlotte’s heart skipped, but her voice stayed calm. “He’s busy.”Gavin scratched his head, his expression open and honest. “Oh, right. Lieutenant Cooper came in early this morning to request two days off. Did something happen at home?”Charlotte froze.From the moment he left Ruby’s place last night until now, he hadn’t ca

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