Chapter 1

Chapter 1:

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“I’m married.”

In the darkness, Cathryn Moore felt her back slam into the door, the breath knocked from her lungs as a tall man loomed over her. Heat radiated off him, his breath grazing her neck until she shivered uncontrollably.

Fingers like a vice clamped around her waist, holding her in place. He let out a low, derisive laugh. “Married, huh? And yet you’re lurking around a hotel alone in the middle of the night. Does your husband know what you’re really doing?”

Pain stabbed through Cathryn’s chest. Barely an hour earlier, a video had arrived on her phone—her husband, Liam Watson, sprawled in bed with Jordyn Moore, her own half-sister. They were tangled together, shameless, not a trace of guilt between them.

Driven by desperation, Cathryn had stormed into the hotel to catch them red-handed. But before she could even find the right room, this unfamiliar man had dragged her into this one.