Generosity Sentence

BLURB ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** You can’t force me to go with you,” I sneered. “I will carry you myself, Vanessa, if you insist on acting like a kid.” “I‘ll yell out for help, someone will hear.” “And sentence your loved ones to death? I think not,” he squinted. “What was their name again, Alena… Eugene" “Kai, don’t you dare touch my loved ones!” I said in gritted teeth as I walked closer to him, warning him, “Or else I will— He scoffed, and he grabbed my hand. “You will what? Huh?” Tears began to fall freely from my eyes. “Kia, don’t touch the ones I love!” I said in between tears. “We made a deal,” he said, grabbing my hands as I struggled to be free from his grip. “There is no going back. If you ever run away again, I won’t even give you a preview, you will attend the funeral of your loved ones.” his voice was dangerously low. Hot tears fell from my eyes. “I won’t touch you, so that you can suffer for your mistake,” he smirked. “You and I know, the pain is worse than death,” he said in a whisper. I closed my eyes and let tears cascade down my cheeks. I now understood what I had done. Understood that I had made a deal with the monster who was once my lover. I was foolish to think he had changed.

Tessa Anderson has endured two years of a marriage that feels more like a sentence than a vow. Her husband, Raymond Anderson, the powerful CEO everyone admires has never hidden his contempt for her or his infatuation with Danielle Greene, a glamorous model who thrives on Tessa’s humiliation. Once naïve enough to mistake his coldness for strength, Tessa is no longer willing to play the role of the discarded wife. Divorce, she believes, is her only salvation. But Raymond has other plans. When she serves him papers, he doesn’t sign, he laughs. Yet the determination in her eyes shocks him in a way nothing else ever has. Desperate to keep her bound, he strikes a cruel bargain: if she can win the approval of his ruthless mother and the blessing of his grandmother, the architect of their marriage, he will grant her freedom. If she fails, she belongs to him. The challenge is nearly impossible. Tessa faces humiliation, betrayal, and a public collapse that leaves her abandoned in the rain. An accident soon after nearly costs her everything, and when she wakes in the hospital, it is Derrick, Raymond’s best friend by her side, not her husband. That night, the love she once had for Raymond dies. But for Raymond, it is only the beginning. The thought of losing her shook him to the core. He begins to fight for her in ways he never has, even as his love twists into jealousy and obsession. When Raymond finally drops the mask—revealing the man beneath the arrogance, the man terrified of losing her, Tessa is forced to ask herself the question she swore she’d buried: Can love truly be reborn in the depth of hate, or is his devotion just another chain designed to keep her bound?