She never asked for a single acre of his empire.
She only asked for one honest hour.
For nine years, Sadie Colvin built her world around her father’s cidery on the ridge overlooking her billionaire husband’s vineyards. Hundred-year-old apple trees, and a cider mill where half the county still brings its fruit every October.
She carried the loneliness quietly, telling herself her billionaire husband belonged to the vintage before he belonged to her.
She convinced herself the distance was just the season.
Until Margo Sable decided a wife was one more thing she could manage for him.
Suddenly, the husband who couldn’t spare one hour for his wife has endless hours for the assistant on his own payroll.
Late calls, private jokes, and every small confidence that used to be Sadie’s.
He swears their relationship is strictly professional. Margo makes certain it never quite is. But watching him give another woman the attention Sadie has spent nine years asking for is a betrayal that bottles up the last honest thing left between them.
So Sadie does the one thing he never put down for later. She sets her wedding ring on his tasting bench, walks out of his cellar, and drives back up the ridge to open the mill.
Now the billionaire who crushed his own marriage realizes he just lost everything.
Winning her back won’t happen with a calculated apology or a check with endless zeros on it.
It will take stripping off the suit, hauling bins and running her father’s press until his hands are raw, and the grovel of a lifetime.
Can he get her back before the last of the crop is in?
Or has he crushed his marriage beyond all hope of repair?
THERE IS NO CHEATING IN THIS BOOK.
