Married to My Mourning
READING AGE 18+
The last thing Nora Kane expected at her sister's funeral was a marriage proposal.Not from a stranger. Not from him — Damien Voss, the man whose name made senators go quiet and whose smile never once reached his eyes.She needed protection. He needed a wife who wouldn't ask questions. The arrangement was simple: six months, a ring, and the pretense of love in front of his enemies. She would be safe. He would be untouchable.But Nora is still bleeding from a grief she hasn't named out loud, and Damien carries silences so heavy they fill every room he walks into. Two broken people living a lie — except some nights, when the house goes still and he sits with her in the dark without saying a word, it doesn't feel like pretending at all.She knows what he is. She knows what this is.So why does losing him feel like something she can't survive again?
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She woke at three and couldn't go back.
This was not new. Since the phone call — the one that had started with Ms. Kane, I'm sorry to inform you in a voice so practiced at this particular sentence that she'd known before the next word — sleep had become a negotiation. She would get a few hours. Then some part of her would surface, remember……
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