Catriona I needed someone outside this storm. The hotel room felt too small, too quiet, and my thoughts were spiraling too fast. After everything Shawn had confessed — the full ledger, the hidden children, Sicily, Amara, Carlisle, the metal-beaded cock that made women crave him — I felt trapped in a web of love, fear, and uncertainty. I was head over heels for him. Deeply, painfully in love with the man who fought Phase V for me, who held me like I was his entire world when we were together. But I wasn’t sure how far I could go with this situation. What if the day came when I was no longer desirable to him? What if the system — or his own addictions — pushed him toward someone younger, someone new, someone who could give him whatever I couldn’t? Shawn was the type of man who was addicted to women. A womanizer at his core, even if he claimed his heart belonged only to me. The thought of marriage terrified me. Signing my life to a man with this many secrets, this many hidden cha
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