Valerie Thorne’s POV:

A week later…

At the airport, I clutched my passport tightly. Blondie had arranged for me a fake identity and a fake passport. Now I wasn’t Valerie Thorne anymore. I had become Celine Ashford now.

I was finally leaving Las Vegas for good, for forever. This was not what I wanted to do, but this was what I had to do. For the sake of my child. How good it would have been if Raven were the father of my child, but he was not.

Raven was not a cruel person, but I ...