"What did you just say?!"
James Lancaster couldn't believe his ears. Minutes earlier, they'd been tangled in the afterglow—Clara had shown a passion he'd never witnessed before. Why would she suddenly demand a divorce?
"I said we're getting divorced." Her gaze burned into his, every word deliberate as a guillotine's drop.
"Give me one damn reason!"
Clara's icy stare didn't waver. "I only married the former CEO of Lancaster Group. Now that you're nobody, why should I stay?"
"What's really going on?" His voice cracked—not with anger, but dread. His Clara would never say these things.
Her heart splintered like glass. With six months left to live, she refused to chain him to a dying woman. If she couldn't witness his comeback, she'd give him one final push—no regrets.
When he learned th
