GROVELING AFTER DECEIT

The number was wrong by four hundred and twelve dollars. That was how I found out my husband had been spending our Sundays in a motel room forty-one miles from home. Not from a confession. Not because guilt finally broke him. Not because Rook Vance loved me enough to tell the truth before I had to dig it out myself. I found it in the books. I have always trusted numbers more than people. Numbers do not soften the truth. They do not make excuses. They do not swear vows under a cold October sky and then break them in another woman’s bed. Rook did not just betray me. He used the Ash Creek Riders MC as his shield. He used his brothers, his club business, and their sacred silence to hide seven months of lies. He wore his wedding ring into a motel room with Naomi Kessler and came home to me like he had not spent the best parts of our life somewhere else. But the worst part was not the other woman. It was the vow. “You’ll never have to wonder where I am.” That was the promise I built my whole marriage on. And now I am done wondering. I take my daughter then leave the house because that was not the only dark lie i discover. And behind it waits a club debt. A dangerous enemy. A frightened other woman. A black truck watching my every move. And a truth the Ash Creek Riders buried so deep they thought I would never find it. Rook wants forgiveness, but I do not need pretty words. I need truth. Costly truth. Public truth. The kind that strips a man down to the bone and makes him prove, day after day, that remorse is more than regret. His grovel begins with empty-booth vigils and blood on gravel. But if he wants a second chance, he will have to do more than bleed. He will have to give me back the one thing he stole long before he touched another woman. My choice. Now the danger he helped bring into our lives is coming closer, and the enemy knows exactly where to aim. At me. At our daughter. At the softest place Rook still has left. And when the debt finally comes due, my cheating husband will have to prove whether he is still the man who left me wondering… Or the man willing to risk everything so I never have to wonder again. Groveling After Deceit is a dark, emotional second-chance MC romance featuring real infidelity, a marriage in crisis, public grovel, small-town judgment, club danger, fierce heroine healing, and an earned happily ever after. Read now if you love cheating-and-betrayal romances where forgiveness is not easy, the grovel is painful, and the heroine’s dignity matters as much as the love story.