Bound By Vows, Sealed In Love

ce in the room, turning t

at kept burning again

ing." He chuckled lazily into her ear, his voic

gasp left

plummeting before it leaped

her senses, until she realized

felt so real, the memory of his closeness still burning acr

erself together. Her hand reached for the spac

usband, hadn'

her eyes and slid out of bed to

rummaged for her underwear and a nightgown, and headed to the

knew that as well as any man. She had grown us

quits until the early hours. That rhythm had ended abruptly after an inciden

mories had spilled

about to hand wash her underwear, but the sh

e her. However, when she answered, the voice that

s Iris

Who is

Is Caiden Wells your husband? He was picked up at a bar tonight-drunk and tangled

Caiden was back? And already making trouble

wering, "Alright. I'll be

something presentable, grabbed he

dewalks, music drifting through the sticky air. The drive from her quiet villa to the city's party strip

streets alive with late-night drama. Even this late

ors, she saw him-Caiden, planted on a batte

environment, he was still th

ouched by the chaos around him, occupyi

en him, and her eyes swept over every

that fit perfectly, but he had left the tie and jacket behind. That

a slice of collarbone caught the light. Creases marked his slacks where he'd been sitting, black socks framing his ankl

un a little too much. Eyes tinged with red, he

magnetic side of him-the way his beauty sharpened w

got a front-row seat. Strangers pa

ke this felt almost li

, marked by wealth and legacy. Caiden had always stood out, bless

gue, distant and unreachable, like a star no one dared to touch. Why, then

was hazy, as if unsure whether the face in front of him was real. Even so,

heck in at the front desk. "Hello, I'm Iris Wells. S

is noticed the badge on his chest belonged to another precinct,

ed up for fighting at a bar. If you want the full p

lance footage. The camera angle caught Caiden head-on

ing features refused to be blurred by the garish lights

pletely unbothered by his surroundings. Suddenly, a hot w

aught Iris

, and drew a lazy smile from him. The gold-rimmed glasses on his f

keys, Iris barely noticed the stin

ir words blurred by static, but body language told the story. Caiden took of

an eye, fists

lls family had insisted on the best instructors since he was a boy, and it showed. H

reaking up the chaos a

o mystery about who'd thro

shake was that woman's arm

wd he'd faced. Among them were two young women. Once they realized

but being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night t

er before. She was hinting maybe I'd been secretly pregnant and lost it. Your husband must've thought

in Iris' chest. Her hand drifted unconsciou

ays so composed and proper, had lost c