"No, no, no, Anna. Don't get swayed," she muttered under her breath, tapping her fingers against the small table beside her. "Just because he's acting different doesn't change the fact that he married you for a reason."
Her own voice sounded tired, even to her ears — a mix of reason and disbelief.
Anna wasn't a fool. She knew when something didn't add up, and lately, Daniel Clafford had been a walking contradiction.
The pieces were scattered, but she was starting to connect them.
The file Kira had hidden under her drawer — the same one Anna had seen once in her father's study — wasn't just coincidence. The company name, the signatures, the initials… they all traced back to Daniel.
With Shawn's help, she'd dug deeper. And what she found confirmed what she feared.
Her father wanted to merge with one of Daniel's subsidiaries — secretly, without informing anyone — hoping to secure his own position if things ever went wrong with Clafford Enterprises.
