Claire’s POV
Confusion and hurt slashed through me in equal measures. My mind struggled to understand what I was seeing, but my heart knew before my mind did.
Another woman was in Gideon’s room, dressed in lingerie. That could only mean one thing, a secret tryst, and it made my heart crack into several small pieces.
Gideon’s love life was none of my concern. I had made that clear. That had to be true, no matter what my heart privately longed for.
But when I had told Gideon this, he had said such sweet words to me. He had made me believe that he meant them.
He’d said I was the only woman he had been with. He had said he didn’t want anyone else.
He had to have been lying. The evidence was right here, wearing red see-through underwear.
Susanne stood in the doorway, making no effort to
