Damien's POV

I tried to convince myself I had done the right thing. Love was a weakness. She was weak.

Perhaps the only to save her from my ex-fiancee jealousy and wrath

Clara had become a distraction worse, a business distraction. The moment she whispered those three words with the weight of eternity I love you she became dangerous. Dangerous to her career, to my grip on power, to the fragile equilibrium I had built with the board.

But the problem with danger is that it lingers even ...