Bound By Vows, Sealed In Love

After a year apart, Iris caught her husband, Caden, in what looked like an affair and made up her mind to file for divorce.

Caden pinned her to the wall, his breath warm, his tone lazy and cold. "Divorce? Fine. But didn't we agree to have a child? Give me one, then we're done-assuming you can keep me interested long enough to want one. Until then, don't count on it."

And so began her desperate, humiliating journey to get pregnant-not out of love, but for freedom.

Later, the man who never begged cracked first, voice wrecked with tears. "Forget the kid. Just don't leave me."