Chapter 24 — A Fortress

Clement Renforth had lived his entire adult life carrying a secret that could have destroyed him.

To the world he was only a quiet, devoted widower who raised his stepdaughter alone.

To me he was something far greater.

He was the man who found a frightened woman he had been paid to betray, and chose to save her instead.

He was the man who turned a lie into a fortress, a tragedy into a life, and a sacrifice into the greatest gift of love I will ever know.