“My billionaire ex-husband sat beside me on a flight just to shame me—then three little boys stepped out of a Bentley and ran toward me, calling, “Mom!”

Chloe nodded.

The boys didn’t understand why this stranger looked at them as if they had risen from the past. They didn’t know Harrison had once been Chloe’s husband. They didn’t know his last words to her had been cruel.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” he asked.

Chloe gave a humorless laugh. “You want to do this here?”

“Yes.”

When Harrison reached for her arm, Lucas jumped in front of her. “Don’t touch my mom.”

Harrison froze and immediately let go.

“We are not doing this in front of them,” Chloe said.

“You disappeared,” Harrison snapped.

“No,” she replied. “You erased me.”

For a moment, the old Harrison seemed to flicker through—the man she had loved before pride and suspicion destroyed them. Then his mask returned.

“I want to talk.”

“I want to take my sons home.”

His eyes flashed. “Our sons.”

The air changed.