I found his second phone hidden inside the one room in our house that was supposed to belong only to me.
Cassian Calder was my husband, my safest place, and the man I believed would never leave me the way everyone else had.
He did not leave.
He stayed beside me while building another life in secret.
Now, eleven months after I made him walk out, I am finally creating something that is mine: Arden House, my restoration studio, inside Bellhaven’s abandoned tram depot. I should be free of him.
Instead, the project that could define my future is tied to freight records, club corruption, and the one man I no longer trust.
Cassian says he will expose everything, even if it costs him the Iron Vultures, his position, and every piece of the life he protected while destroying ours.
But regret is not repair.
I still remember the lies. I still see the other woman inside places that once belonged to us. And wanting my husband does not mean I owe him another chance.
He may become a man worthy of trust.
I may still choose to leave.
Because some fractures can be reinforced, but only after every hidden break is exposed.
And before I decide whether our marriage deserves saving, Cassian will have to show me what remains when nothing holding us together is allowed to stay hidden.
