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.

once adored him stood beside another

with a happiness he

flashed-a rainy night that

poured just as heavily then as the snow

night, behind a window just like this one, he and Jenna had

outside in the downpour all night, watching them, her

fade from her eyes until she finally passed

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

man standing like a statue outside gradually caught

and speculating

engaged couple made their way to

him, surprise crossed her face,

heard the gossip from

Elijah had worshipped turned out to be a

girl" he'd dismissed had been the

had finally opened his

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