POV: Leo

I had kept the secret because I believed Kesley was not ready for it. Because I believed the timing was wrong. Because I had told myself that managing it carefully, revealing it at the right moment in the right way, was protection rather than control.

Nora had just made the decision for me.

I started typing.

I would have forgiven you. If you had stayed in your corner with your fantasies and your schemes and kept them pointed anywhere except at my woman and her family. I would have considered us even and left you to whatever life you were building.

Send.

But you went after Kesley with...