The police relayed the unsettling information to Fitch.

Fitch sat there in a daze, his tailored suit feeling constrictive, his mind reeling. He thought he had a firm grasp of the darker side of

human nature, but the idea of someone wrecking their own life to spite their child was new territory even for him.

He suddenly realized he truly didn't know Zoey at all.

Had the police not revealed the truth, he would have pinned it on her without hesitation. Wasn't that the kind of woman she was in

his eyes?

Yet now, his perceptions were being systematically dismantled.

How devastated was Zoey when Wendy stormed in, causing a scene that led to her beloved pup, Ozzy, being snatched from her

arms?

What emotions fueled her when she mustered the courage to confront the Haskins, her temper flaring to the point of almost

striking Wendy?

After being slapped by the man she fancied and skulking away, her world must have crumbled to dust.

Fitch had sailed through life with few setbacks, save for a shadow cast over his childhood. But Zoey, it seemed her entire existence

was cloaked in shadows.

The frustration was creeping back in. He regretted not keeping a cool head the previous night, for not taking the tto properly

evidence she had

patient, not lashed

of something irreplaceable, and no matter how desperately he tried to

seemed futile.

this way about any woman. He mistook it

brought over a new puppy to Zoey earlier that day, it was

tearfully grateful, given

was too

the window, lighting what must have been his umpteenth cigarette of

chain-smoking three in a row, he dialed

to face the scorn of her social circle and the ridicule spreading

the situation

hope in her eyes when she saw Fitch's

her.

whimpered, her

was cold

"Where's Ozzy?"

her

all people, would

color,

do you ask? Fitch, I swear

Fitch's gaze deepened. "Do you takefor a

clear, and her denial now suggested she thought he was not

thought that Fitch's call might

mix of fury

are we still getting

"Don't you know that?"

can change, I really can. I truly care about you, I'd do anything for you. Fitch, no one

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