My Fiancé Vanished a Week Before Our Wedding and Left Me With His 10 Children—Thirty Years Later, His Lawyer Knocked on My Door

Because if I answered, he would have to face everything.

Then:

Protection became my excuse long after it stopped being the entire reason.

I covered my mouth.

Finally.

Julian knew.

I told myself staying away was noble because admitting cowardice after so many years would destroy the story I needed to believe about myself.

Marcus read over my shoulder.