Shattered Vows, Stolen Hearts vol 2 :: The Distance

Zara Malik is twenty four years old and has spent most of her life quietly handling her father's problems. When she discovers that someone has been secretly funding her mother's heart treatment for six years and that the bill is now due, she does what she has always done. She handles it. The payment is not money. It is twelve months as the wife of Damien Reyhan, thirty one, CEO of Reyhan Industries, and the most controlled person she has ever been in a room with. She signs. She moves into his penthouse on the forty seventh floor. She tells herself it is just time. What she does not know is that Damien built this entire arrangement as revenge. He married her to use her as a weapon against her family. The plan was careful. Patient. Three years in the making. The plan did not account for a woman who notices when you move the couch so she has a better view from the floor. Who draws both your coffee mugs on the kitchen counter. Who asks, at three in the morning over cereal, whether the music through the wall helps, and leaves the answer exactly where it lands.