He had been very good at that part.

He had played it, I would learn, for exactly as long as it took to marry me, father a child on me, and find a doctor willing to take a bribe.

Twelve million dollars, it turned out, had done a great deal to clarify my husband’s feelings about money.

Chapter 4 — Larissa

And then he said the name that turned the cold in me into something with an edge.

“Larissa’s five months along now,” Beckett said.