Grace told him Noah’s father left the moment he learned she was pregnant. Something in Daniel clenched at the thought.
Then the outside world struck. Evelyn Brooks, mother of Daniel’s late wife Olivia, demanded he stop whatever “nonsense” he was involving his son in. She threatened legal action if he continued to let a poor young woman get close.
Daniel refused. He took Grace to dinner to talk away from Liam—then confessed he’d fallen in love with her. Grace admitted she loved him too, but feared she’d never fit into his world. Daniel insisted she was the piece that made it whole.
Just as they let themselves imagine a future, an elegant woman stepped up to their table.
“Daniel. Aren’t you going to introduce me to your friend?”
His face drained.
“This is… Olivia,” he whispered. “My wife.”
Olivia Brooks-Carter—the woman he’d buried.
Calm and icy, Olivia revealed she’d faked her death to run away with her tennis coach and avoid a scandalous divorce. Now that she’d been abandoned and her money was dwindling, she came back to reclaim her old life. When she saw photos of Daniel with a poor street vendor, she returned to secure her status.