Description
Vanessa:
Everyone who knows what Daniel Carter did to me would say walking into a hotel bar in Zurich and finding Mark Monroe was the universe’s idea of a sick joke. Mark was my boss before he was my cautionary tale — the powerful, controlled CEO whose wife I watched fall apart, whose life I watched Daniel dismantle from the inside. I know exactly who Mark Monroe is and what men like him want. I told myself one drink was fine. I told myself I was in control. I’ve been lying to myself for years so I’m quite good at it by now.
Mark:
I knew Vanessa when she worked for me, when she was Daniel’s and I was pretending not to notice her, when my marriage was already dying and I was too proud to admit it. I’ve thought about her more than I should have in the months since everything fell apart. Finding her in that bar felt less like coincidence and more like something I wasn’t ready for. She looks like someone who’s been surviving instead of living, and I recognize that because I’ve been doing the same thing. I told her one night. I meant it when I said it.
Two people wrecked by the same storm, finding out they might be each other’s way through it.
