Two pairs of gray eyes.
Two lives he had never held
Damien stood in the middle of the mall, surrounded by strangers, as the woman he had loved and abandoned disappeared into the crowd with his sons.
And for the first time in his life, the man who could buy companies, silence headlines, and control entire rooms finally understood there was one thing money could never buy.
The years he had thrown away…
Part 2
Mara was terrified, but beneath the fear was something fierce and real.
She told Damien in the same conference room where they had first met.
At first, he was silent.
“How far along?” he asked.
“Six weeks.”
He turned toward the window.
“My board can’t know. My mother can’t know. This would become a scandal.”
“A baby is not a scandal,” Mara said.
“For you, maybe not.”
The words broke something between them.
Then Damien pulled an envelope from his jacket.
Money. Privacy. Arrangements. Options.
Mara stared at him.
“You brought paperwork?”
“I’m trying to be practical.”
“I came here because I thought the man who held me at three in the morning might show up. Instead, you brought documents.”…
PART 3
Damien couldn’t sleep that night. Every time he closed his eyes, those two pairs of storm-gray eyes stared back at him from the darkness. His multi-million-dollar penthouse suddenly felt like an empty tomb.
The next morning, he bypassed his assistant and hired the most discreet, high-end private investigation firm in New York. “Find Mara Bennett,” Damien ordered, his voice raw. “I want to know where she lives, where she works, and everything about those boys. By tonight.”
By 5:00 p.m., a thick manila folder rested on his mahogany desk. Damien opened it with trembling fingers.
As he scanned the pages, his heart stopped.
