Riana’s heart stuttered the moment Wesley stepped closer… so close that his warm breath ghosted across her cheek. It shouldn’t have affected her. It shouldn’t have made her pulse flutter wildly like a trapped bird against her ribs. But it did.
And then she made the mistake of looking up.
His face… devilishly handsome, sculpted by the gods themselves, hovered inches from hers. The sharp, perfect jawline, dusted with faint stubble. The deep dimple on his left cheek that appeared only when he softened, the same dimple their daughter had inherited. And those blue eyes… clear, intense, and bluer than she had ever seen them before. They weren’t the cold, distant eyes he had always shown her in marriage.
They were the eyes of a man seeing beauty in her, for the very first time, after t
