I Refused His Apology on Live TV

My husband brought me on a marriage-rescue show because he was certain I'd forgive him. He was certain of a lot of things. Mostly me.

I'm a couples therapist. For nine years I've told strangers that love is a choice you keep making — so when Preston signed us up for The Last Resort, the show where failing marriages get one televised summer to survive, I told the cameras I'd fight for ours.

Then they split the couples up, handed each of us to a beautiful single, and filmed my husband having the summer of his life.

I didn't cry. That's not what anyone expects from the loyal one.

Because here's what Preston said when he thought I couldn't hear him: she always forgives. She's not going anywhere. That's the whole point of a wife like mine.

He doesn't think my loyalty is something I choose. He thinks it's something I am — a sure thing, a safe bet, furniture that happens to love him. And he spent eleven years so certain of it that he never once had to earn me.

Now the show wants its fairy tale: the wronged wife who weeps and takes him back, live, on the season finale, while the whole country cries along. They've spent eight weeks manufacturing a redemption he didn't earn. They're going to hand me a microphone and wait for me to forgive him.

I'm going to do the one thing this entire machine has no idea how to handle.

I'm going to say no.

I Refused His Apology on Live TV is Book 2 of The Last Resort — short, scorching betrayal-and-vindication romance you can devour in one sitting. A husband who took her for granted, a wife who stops being a sure thing, a swoony second chance with the one man hired to be her heartbreak, and a live-TV reckoning the cheater never saw coming. Low heat, high justice, guaranteed HEA. Every Kensley Darke story ends with her on top.

Each book in The Last Resort is a complete standalone. Start anywhere.