The Ninth Year's Reckoning

Summary

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We worked at the same company and had been secretly married for five years.

Today, my husband, Alex Carter, handed out slices of his assistant Chloe Jensen’s birthday cake to everyone’s desk. The entire open-plan office was buzzing about them.

When Chloe cut the cake, she made a point to walk over to me, a bright smile on her face. "Emma, you have to try this. Alex said he ordered it from the best French patisserie in town."

I took the paper plate without an expression, turned around, and