Four hundred people watched my mother-in-law end my marriage.
My husband was one of them.
I was three weeks pregnant and holding a champagne glass I never got to drink when Eleni Kastellanos took the microphone at her own centenary gala and played the room a recording of her son’s voice.
"She was never going to be one of us."
Then the doors opened and Celine Marchetti walked in wearing my seat at the head table.
I looked across that ballroom at Adrian. My husband. The man who crossed a room in Bergen three years ago and told me he would spend his life proving he deserved me.
He looked back at me.
And he said nothing.
Not one word. Not while they slid the annulment papers across the linen. Not while his mother smiled. Not while I walked out through four hundred people who had already decided what I was.
I flew out of London that night with a suitcase and a secret.
Four years later, the Kastellanos empire is bleeding out. There is one building that can save it, and one architect in the world licensed to restore it.
Me.
He walks into the bid meeting in Milan and he stops breathing when he sees my face.
He has no idea about the little girl in the car outside with his eyes and his stubborn chin and a name he has never heard.
He wants to explain. He says his silence bought something. He says he has been looking for me for four years.
He can say whatever he wants.
He had one night to open his mouth. He chose the room.
Now he can watch me take everything back.
The Kastellanos Vows: Book One. A full-length, emotionally devastating marriage in crisis romance with a secret baby, a mother-in-law who deserves everything coming to her, a hero who will grovel for every page he earns, and a happily ever after that costs him. No cheating. Free in Kindle Unlimited.
