Leonard
"Look at yourself, Clara. I can't even get turned on by looking at you anymore. What did you expect? That I'd make love to a wall?"
Those cruel words shattered Clara's world in an instant. She had given Julian everything—her loyalty, her youth, and every part of herself. But as her body changed and she gained weight, the love of the man who had once vowed to cherish her forever disappeared along with it. Day after day, Clara found herself begging for scraps of affection from a husband who could barely bring himself to acknowledge her existence.
Then, a ghost from her past stepped back into her life.
"You said yes. That means you're mine, Clara."
Damon was not joking about the childhood promise Clara had always dismissed as nothing more than innocent play. Unlike her cold and indifferent husband, Damon looked at Clara as though she were the center of his universe. His gaze burned with a dangerous obsession—an all-consuming possessiveness that refused to accept the word no.
Caught between a dying marriage and a man whose unwavering desire threatened to consume everything, Clara faced a perilous choice: remain with the husband who treated her like a shadow, or surrender herself to the man who would gladly set the world ablaze just to make her his.
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