Chapter 21: The Choice
Isolde woke up the next morning with Damien’s arm around her. The collar felt different now. Less like a chain and more like a promise. She turned in his arms and watched him sleep. The powerful man who had admitted to killing someone. The man who said he loved her. The man she was starting to love back.
He opened his eyes and smiled. "Morning."
"Morning." She kissed him softly. "I meant what I said last night. I choose you."
Damien pulled her closer. "Good. Because I am not letting you go."
They spent the morning working together. Her memory gave him the last pieces he needed to end the Ponzi scheme. Numbers. Accounts. Everything. When they finished he looked at her with something like pride.
"You did it," he said. "We did it."
She smiled. "What happens
