The Kiss and the Divorce

Noreen lost her parents at fourteen and was taken in by Caiden, who secretly knelt for three days to convince his grandmother to shelter her. Their marriage was happy for a year—until a misunderstanding drove him to cold cruelty and staged affairs. On their anniversary, his public humiliation pushed her to file for divorce. When the truth of his sacrifice emerged, a drunken confession and a kiss collided with a divorce notification he refused to grant.