Chapter 168. Restless

Bethany paced around the living room, her footsteps creating a relentless rhythm on the floor.

She stopped abruptly in front of the mantle, glaring at the family photos that adorned it. There was one of her and Maxwell on their wedding day, both smiling, though the happiness on her face had been more for the cameras than for him. Another showed them on a vacation, their smiles a facade for the public eye. Those moments were just parts of a carefully constructed image, far from the reality of their partnership.

“Dammit!” she swore, her voice breaking the silence. She had done what she had done all because she was trying to secure Maxwell when he was abducted. But it had all gone so wrong.

“Look what it cost me,” she muttered bitterly.

She clenched her fists, the memories with Jason flooding back. What he had asked for was outrageous but in her desperation, she had agreed. Now she realized how foolish she had been, bringing herself down to that classless fool a