After 144 hours away with another woman, he finally remembered his pregnant wife. His shaken assistant told him, “Sir, your wife had a serious medical emergency and lost the baby. She has already signed the divorce papers and left.”

toward the empty bassinet across the room, where morning light fell across untouched blankets.

“I have never been more certain.”

Adrian returned on the sixth evening, laughing in the back of a black SUV, with Celeste beside him wearing the diamond bracelet he had once claimed was being “saved for my anniversary.”

He entered headquarters expecting congratulations for closing a deal.

Instead, Noah was waiting in the lobby.

Adrian tossed him a garment bag.

“Where’s Claire? She’s probably furious I missed another prenatal class.”

Noah didn’t take the bag.

His