Vow of Redemption: The Crescent City Vows, Book Two

If I ever say the word asset, I am lying. If I say nothing, count heartbeats. It means everything.

My husband burned our marriage down in public to keep me breathing, and he did it well, because Dominic Moretti has never once failed at the thing he hates most. So I let New Orleans believe I was discarded. I went back to my father's house, worked my night shifts under Callahan escort, and counted a heartbeat nobody in this city knows about yet.

Then I walked back into that mansion and knelt to the man who took it from us, and kissed his hand like a penitent wife, in front of everyone.

Salvatore Moretti keeps a private ledger of apologies he believes he is owed. He wants my name in it. He can have my name in it. He has never once stopped to consider what a trauma nurse does with access.

Forgiveness was never the plan. I came back to take him apart at the same table, at the same feast, one year later, with my husband standing beside me for all of it. And when it is done I am going to make that man say my name out loud in the room where he threw it away.

VOW OF REDEMPTION is the conclusion of The Crescent City Vows duet and must be read after VOW OF RUIN.