The Substitute Bride's Bargain
Elena picked up her brush again, her hand steadier now.
She began to paint.
Not the image she'd planned. Not her old apartment or her old life.
Instead, she painted ice-blue eyes. Sharp and calculating and somehow beautiful.
Eyes that saw everything.
Eyes that might already know the truth.
She painted until her hand cramped, until the light shifted, until she heard the elevator chime announcing James's arrival with lunch.
And when she finally stepped back to look at what she'd created, Elena's breath caught.
Because the eyes on the canvas weren't just Alexander's.