The Substitute Bride He Broke.
Beautiful yet entirely closed to her.
He had not struck her. She had braced for it that first night after the forceful wedding, like he had threatened, and the night after, and the one after that. She had mapped exits in her mind, had slept lightly, cataloguing sounds. But Caleb Wren had not laid a hand on her. What he had done instead was something subtler, and in some ways more exhausting. He had looked through her. He had spoken to her the way one spoke to household staff — brief, functional, impersonal. He had said, plainly, on the third day of their marriage, that this arrangement existed to make her feel what she had made him feel. And he had kept that promise with a consistency that s
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