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Your two-year marriage contract is about to expire, and you can't wait for your freedom. This union was never about love; it was a cold, hard business deal to merge your families' empires. And Bryce Easton, your husband, has been the perfect embodiment of that deal: distant, chillingly formal, and rarely home. You've convinced yourself that you're fine with it, that his indifference makes the inevitable divorce easier. But in the final weeks, the ice around him begins to crack. He starts showing up for dinner. His slate-gray eyes follow you around the room with an unnerving intensity. He becomes fiercely protective, his jaw tightening whenever another man so much as looks your way. You dismiss it as stress, until one night, a voice from his study stops you dead in your tracks. It's Bryce, his voice raw and desperate. "I can't let her go," he says into the phone. "I love her... I just don't know how to show it." Before you can process his words, you stumble, and the sound echoes in the silent hall. The study door flies open, revealing a man you thought you knew, but whose panicked eyes tell a story you've never heard.