nd elegance, yet it felt utterly empty. The mansion's cold grandeur mirrored the emotional distance between her and Aaron. She was now Mrs. Walker in name, but it hardly fel

rrangement with all the charm of a corporate briefing. "We'll need to attend charity events together, dinners with cli

wanted to challenge him, to make him see her as more than just the woman he had entered into a cold agreement with.

very room was a study in opulence, and yet there was something lifeless about it all. Aaron's lif

eks, the loneliness of her position began to creep in. She had agreed to this for Catherine, for her family