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I sold my body to my husband, Cade Sterling.
One hundred thousand dollars. That was his price for a night with me. The only thing keeping our son, Leo, alive.
My stepmother whispered lies in his ear, and he believed them. He forced another woman into our bed while I was forced onto an operating table.
"You're pregnant," the nurse said, her voice a sterile blade. "Mr. Sterling has requested a termination."
Then, I was forced to watch my son Leo, my only reason for living, leap from a cliff to save me from further torment.
He was gone.
My husband had murdered our first child, and now our second. There was nothing left to live for.
In the cold, scarlet water of the bathtub, I finally let go.
But as darkness claimed me, I didn't know the truth was a far more cruel and twisted thing than I could have ever imagined.
And that Cade Sterling, my tormentor, was about to pay a price far greater than money could ever cover.

His Ruinous Price

Cade had lost his mind, refusing to eat or drink, doing nothing but holding Aria’s body in a tight, unending embrace, which eventually drove Logan to have him sedated so he could secretly have her body taken for cremation, terrified that she would begin to decompose in his arms.


In truth, Logan had expected Cade to come after him with murderous intent for making such a decision without permission, but surprisingly, when Cade awoke, he never mentioned her body again.


Cade threw himself into his work with the mechanical efficiency of a robot, closing several major deals for the Sterling Group, yet he had become an arctic wasteland to everyone around him, radiating a cold so intense that no one dared get close.


Logan often found Cade staring into space, lost in a silent void. The man had never been one for easy smiles, but now, after Aria’s death, his face was a permanent mask of stone.


Chapter 26