The Sin of His Obsession
To fight for his freedom, he had to give it away.
Aiden's mind reeled. His entire life had been a series of struggles to escape his mother's influence, to be his own man, to forge his own path. He had just discovered that all his choices were illusions, part of a grander design orchestrated by a man he didn't even know. And now, to survive that revelation, he had to willingly become what he had always despised: a pawn. He looked at Chloe, his eyes filled with a pained resignation. She understood. Her own life had been built on a foundation of fierce independence, of pulling herself up from nothing. The idea of surrendering all that to another person was a fate worse than death. But what was