ain, it was alread

nearby machine filled the silence, and the sharp, steri

as if every bone had been shattered and stitched back together wrong. She let

he nurse's voice softened, rel

ospital?" Hazel's thro

u last night. They said you were floating about two hundred meters offshore. You were lucky--they got to

covered all the expenses. He told us t

urse

ayan did know she'd been hurt. But he hadn't come. Not even once. Just a phone call,

bedside table. Hazel reached for

ted a new phot

n't see his face, only his back, but Hazel knew that silhouette anywhere. After three years of marriage, she

aptio

and someone insis

comments

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le go

ct tog

While she'd been fighting for her life, her hu

quickly. He wasn't wort

t asked her to prepare divorce papers. Her friend sounded shocked, but

*

on the hospital bed when t

ed in carrying a fruit basket.

l. "The doctor says your injuries are serious. You'l

from him, her voice weak

awake." A brief pause. "But he said your decision to swim in a restricted area was h

. Hazel's chest tightened

. The president has been very busy, but he still cares abo

r tone almost detached.

ssion stopped him. Then Hazel spoke again, her voic

his to

nked. "Wh

it." Hazel closed her eyes

but he nodded and q

*

quarters -- Pr

his desk, his knuckles white. A second

ow and dangerous, vibrating lik

eport had stated: 'Mrs. Knight illegally entered a restricted area, violating s

celed a billion-dollar oversea

d sent him d

, fury and humiliat

ne--then saw it. Her n

inside h

rowl. He kicked his chair over and hurled

e, official. All it would take was his signatu

n Kn

as now standing here, slapped in the face by his own wife. The woman he'd pulled

in carefully, carrying a cup

"She wants a divorce," h

ze. "Mada

beach is restricted. She went there on her own. I c

e Mrs. Fos

cruel. "Olivia said she drove there alone. With suns

fell s

" Rayan said coldly, "then

darkening. "She thinks divorce will sca

r?" Simon ask

pped to a lethal calm. "She ne

im? She had no skills, no experience--she'd be los

" he ordered. "Let's see how

ightened, but he

*

d out from the bathroom, a m

redit card ending in

. Of course. Rayan always moved fast. But if he tho

eally knew

er to cut her off, she

le, and lay on the bed, ready to have a goodnight slee