The Wife He Humiliated Under The Mistletoe (You Chose Her. Now Grovel. #35)

Every December, Caroline Bradshaw runs the holiday floor at Hadley’s, her family’s Philadelphia department store, and the whole city packs the atrium to watch the mistletoe clock strike seven. Whoever the spotlight finds under the mistletoe kisses on camera.

This year, it finds her husband.

Billionaire Connor Bradshaw kisses his chief of staff, Brittany Vail, hand in her hair, until the cheering turns to murmuring.

Caroline finishes the program without a crack in her voice, and by eleven, the clip is leading the news.

That night, Connor admits he never slept with Brittany, but for two months of late nights, he gave her the attention and confidences he had stopped bringing home to his wife.

Caroline moves out, but she refuses to leave the store.

Connor’s money saved Hadley’s and he chairs its board, while Brittany has her sights set on the holiday floor.

So Caroline runs the busiest weeks of the year in the same building as both of them, refuses to be managed, takes her story back on live television, and wins the city.

Then a Boston department store offers her the job of running its holiday season under her own name.

Connor’s grovel is public, expensive, and aimed at her alone.

But when a document bearing his signature threatens to move her off her own floor, Caroline has an offer in hand and nothing left to prove.

For the first time, she has a future that doesn’t depend on Connor, Hadley’s, or the Bradshaw name.

Whether she stays is hers to decide, on her terms or not at all.

A steamy Christmas second-chance romance about public humiliation, pride, hard-won redemption, and a wife who finally chooses herself.