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The narrator pieces together the night’s playfulness, vivid persona cues, and the renewed closeness with Alexei Nazarov after years of silence. As tension between longing, nostalgia, and danger rises, the plot sets up a high-stakes meeting in Las Vegas tied to a personal and professional agenda.","SECRET HUSBAND  \nCHICAGO PLAYERS  \nKATE MEADER  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nPrologue  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nChapter 36  \nChapter 37  \nChapter 38  \nChapter 39  \nChapter 40  \nChapter 41  \nChapter 42  \nChapter 43  \nChapter 44  \nChapter 45  \nChapter 46  \nChapter 47  \nChapter 48  \nChapter 49  \nChapter 50  \nChapter 51  \nChapter 52  \nEpilogue  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nAcknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Kate Meader  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis novel is a work of fiction, created without the use of AI technology. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author ’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.  \nCopyright © 2026 by Kate Meader Cover design: Qamber Designs  \nEditing: Kristi Yanta  \nProofreading: Julia Griffis  \nISBN: 978-1-954107-88-5  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.  \nWithout in any way limiting the author ’s exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \nLauren  \nTHE ROOM WAS SPINNING.  \nA crusty film had glued my eyes shut. I tried—God, I tried—but no joy. Or maybe I knew that whatever might greet me when I opened them would be worse. The furry taste in my mouth had to be related. Better to just die here alone.  \nExcept I wasn’t alone. I was warm, but in a way that wasn’t fueled by my own body heat. This was someone else’s, and I instinctively knew its source was male because it was so foreign to me.  \nI was in a bit of a rut.  \nBut perhaps no more? I moved my tongue around my mouth, didn’t enjoy that much, so I stopped. A tuft of something hairy tickled my nostrils. I blew it away. It returned, determined to be added to my list of grievances.  \nBy the time I managed to crack open an eyelid, a question had formed: was I wearing a hat? Not only was my body being spooned by a hot, hard brand of masculinity, but my head was covered by … I reached up and tentatively pulled.  \nAwig.  \nMore specifically, a black licorice, polyester concoction.  \nThe strains of “Suspicious Minds” wormed in my ear. Elvis? Yes! We had come across one of those crazy flash mob things, and there was me thinking flash mobs were a thing of the past, but this was a full-blown Vegas e-vent.  \nAlso, we.  \nTiny construction workers were jackhammering inside my skull. I tried lifting it. Didn’t make much progress. But I had to push through because I was in a hotel room, completely hungover, with a man—and now I realized which man—and an Elvis pompadour balanced precariously on my head.  \nI elbowed behind me.“Wake up.” It came out way-yup.  \nMy bedmate grunted into my neck and tightened his grip, a large hand clamped possessively over my breasts. It felt so natural there, so right, which meant my instincts were way off. An awkward turn in his arms forced him to release his hold and presented me with a blonde Lhasa Apsostyled mop. No face, just hair. 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