He Signed the Papers While I Was in Labor

Sloane Barrett gave up her career to marry a Barrett, and for four years she has kept it running on his behalf. Then she goes into labor in a Zurich hotel room and her husband is in Geneva, closing the deal that will make him chairman. His signature arrives by courier the next morning on a hospital form, with a note that says, in full, 'Apologies, in Geneva.' She has the baby alone. Eleven days later she and June check into a hotel. When Adrian lands she is already gone. He does not grovel. He strategizes, because he's good at it, and that's the problem. She has counsel. She has a job in Tacoma. She has a daughter he has never seen for more than an hour. Now he has eleven months, one court date, and a rental kitchen to earn something he was never taught to give. A billionaire marriage-in-crisis grovel about a woman who stops waiting.