The Billionaire's Secret Bride
"It is harder than I expected."
"Try anyway. Later. I want to know her name properly, not just the watch you touch when you think no one is looking."
"Claire," I said, and something in my chest loosened just slightly at finally saying it to someone who was not Daniel. "Her name was Claire. She would have been thirty this year. She wanted to be an architect, like you, actually, though I never told you that part before."
"I did not know that," Elena said softly, and for a moment even the crisis around us seemed to pause, as though the hallway itself understood the weight of what had just been shared inside it.