Publicly Claimed

What happens when the secret stops being a secret—and he claims me where the whole street can see.

Jax is done keeping me behind closed doors. He clips on a leash, and walks me across the lawn in broad daylight while my husband trails behind carrying my things. The neighbors are whispering. Soon they'll all know.

And this is the week Jax takes me—out in the open, for anyone to see, while Mark watches the man next door give me the baby he never could.

Let them look. I've never felt more alive.