One reckless night. One hasty marriage. One devastating truth.
“I don’t want children,” my husband said. “Especially not with Ava.”
Ava
All I ever wanted was a family—a real one, built with a man I loved. I thought my love could thaw the Koch family’s cold, calculating arrogance. I thought Johansen was different from the father who raised him.
I was wrong.
By day, he was my boss. By night, he was my husband—a secret neither of us was allowed to speak of at the office. To him, our marriage was a secret he savored keeping—a thrill locked behind closed doors. With one careless sentence, he stripped me down to an asset: a convenient wife, easily dismissed, easily replaced. I didn’t cry. I didn’t beg. Instead, I handed in my resignation, filed for divorce, and erased every trace of him from my life. The Koch family didn’t get to decide what I was worth—I did.
Johansen
Our story started at a Halloween masquerade—a woman in a spider costume who made me forget every rule I’d ever lived by. It nearly ended with the coldest words I’ve ever spoken. My father raised me to believe love was a weakness. For a long time, I believed him. Now I have one chance—maybe my last—to prove I’m nothing like the man who made me.
Trigger Warning: A note from the author: this book includes pregnancy loss.
Titles in the Begging for a Second Chance series include: If You Forget Me ~ Talk to Me ~ Stop Taking Me for Granted ~ Stop Treating Me Like a Footnote ~ Stop Showing Me Off Like a Trophy ~
This is a no-spice romance, perhaps with closed-door or fade-to-black scenes. Tension and kisses might be involved.
