Harper’s POV
Cade has kept his distance entirely ever since his mother dropped a nuclear bomb on me yesterday afternoon.
I sit at my desk, staring blankly at my computer monitor, my chest hollowed out and aching. I should be glad his mother finally exposed his truth before I completely fell for him again. For a brief, foolish second on that cold bathroom floor, and again when his lips crashed into mine in his locked office, I actually let myself start to believe that maybe he could still have some real feelings for me. I thought the ice was finally beginning to thaw between us.
But I was horribly wrong.
He just wants to play with me. He wants to control me, to own me, to use my body while he quietly prepares to marry someone else. Someone infinitely more suited to his dark, violent new
