Dante's answer wasn't what Chloe had expected. Naively, she'd been waiting for him to deny it, but her husband was such a cynic that his words were enough for her to understand the truth. He saw her as nothing more than something physical, a body he simply wanted to fuck.

Hiding the mixture of anger and sadness threatening to overwhelm her, she turned her attention back to her laptop and continued with her assignment, pretending his words hadn't shattered her.

"I was meeting with Volkov," Da