Her pulse thundered in her ears as she weaved through the crowd, the weight of what had just happened crashing down on her. Tyler’s audacity. The kiss. The slap. And most importantly—the fact that her secret had almost been exposed.

She didn’t look back.

By the time she reached the parking lot, her hands trembled violently as she buckled Dom into his car seat.

Her phone buzzed in her purse, but she ignored it.

She didn’t calm down until she was halfway home, Dom happily humming in the backseat, oblivious to the storm raging inside his mother.

But across town, Tyler stood in the middle of the mall, still rubbing...