UP IN FLAMES
Other than looking a bit pale, she seemed exactly like the same woman she’d been the day before.
She tried not to cry. A widow who couldn’t grieve. What did that make her? Some kind of monster? While she’d known she hadn’t loved Christopher, she’d known he hadn’t loved her either. He’d needed a wife and had courted her. Even though they’d made love, at least in the beginning, the passion had been missing. Christopher had been a bad husband. Growing up in the club, she’d seen plenty of examples of that. He’d been an absent, unloving one, showing up only when they both had a public role to play. When he’d stopped making love to her, she’d been too exhausted and relieved to care. Later, she’d b