Chapter 97

The truth was, Elijah had fallen for Gloria long before tonight.

When she'd told him that last time she was over him. When he'd discovered she'd vanished without a word. When he'd searched her room and found no trace of the love letters and drawings she'd once created for him. When he'd come to London and seen her with another man.

He had fallen for the girl who'd chased after him for years, without even realizing it himself.

He'd mistaken his feelings for something else entirely, burying them whenever they surfaced.

Until now, when they finally hit him with devastating clarity.

His chest tightened like he was having a heart attack, making it hard to breathe.

For one crazy moment, he considered barging inside, racing upstairs to grab Gloria, to tell her he loved her. To say he'd been an idiot and beg for another chance.

But reality kept him frozen in place, unable to move as snow piled on his shoulders.

The cold seeping through his clothes was nothing compared to the ice forming in his chest.

who had once adored him stood beside another man, exchanging

glowed with a happiness he hadn't seen in

flashed-a rainy night that felt

just as heavily then

a window just like this one, he and

all night, watching them, her world collapsing with each

eyes

exactly what she'd felt. Now he knew the gut-wrenching

like a statue outside gradually

drinks and speculating about the "poor lovesick fool"

made their way

crossed her face, followed

gossip from

Elijah had worshipped turned out

he'd dismissed had been

opened his eyes

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