Chapter 7

ZANE

Looking at the woman apologizing in front of me, I felt... almost nothing.

No irritation, no sympathy. Just silence in my chest.

What I did feel, though, was a lingering question: had I been too hasty in deciding to marry Valeria Hale?

Sure, she saved my life a year ago. But were there not countless other ways to repay a debt? Ways that didn’t involve something as binding as marriage?

I didn’t intend to fall in love with her—or anyone—but I had no plans of being cheated on, either. But judging from how she’d lost her composure just now, all because I happened to resemble someone else… it was clear that whoever she mistook me for had once meant a lot to her.

My mind wandered back to a line in the confidential dossier my men had compiled after investigating her personal life.

[...has only been in one relationship.]

Chances were, the person I reminded her of was that ex-boyfriend.

I was still mulling over this when I heard a he