Chapter 106

Chapter 106: A Kiss, A Touch

Angela POV

His eyes widened in disbelief, bloodshot from alcohol but still that unmistakable emerald green. For a moment, he just stared, his breath catching as if he'd been punched.

"Angela?" he whispered, his voice breaking. "Is that really you or am I

hallucinating?” His fingers trembled as they reached up to touch my face, hesitant and uncertain, as if I might dissolve under his touch.

The overwhelming stench of whiskey hit me as he leaned closer. I had no idea how much he'd been drinking tonight, but it was enough to make my eyes water. his thumb tracing the outline of my cheekbone in a gesture so achingly familiar it made my heart constrict.

"You can't be real," he murmured, his eyes filling with a mixture of wonder and pain. "I've dreamed of finding you so many times..." His fingers tangled in my hair, the touch both gentle and desperate. "Tell me I'm not imagining this."

I could see the war of emotions playing across his features-anger, hurt, longing, and

beneath it all, a raw vulnerability that the alcohol had stripped bare.

"Let go of me, Sean!" I hissed, struggling against his grip, trying to ignore how my body

still betrayed me with its response to his touch after all these years.

His gaze focused slightly at the sound of my voice, those green eyes-the same ones I saw

every day in Ethan's face-searching mine with painful intensity.

His fingers continued their exploration, tracing the contours of my face as if committing

them to memory.

"It is you," he breathed, the revelation seeming to hit him anew.

"Where did you go? Why did you..."

His words slurred slightly as he swayed, his weight pressing me further against the wall. His eyes dropped to my lips, and I knew exactly what he was thinking.

"Sean Shaw, if you dare kiss me, I swear you'll regret it," I warned, my voice deadly cold despite my hammering heart.

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Suddenly, his body went slack against mine, his considerable weight nearly crushing me

as he collapsed.

"Angel," he murmured.

push him away and stand up, but his arms instinctively tightened around

his hand moving

of his five o'clock shadow scraping against my sensitive

unwelcome electric current shot through my body, awakening sensations I'd

forget for five years.

paralyzed, caught between past and

cut through the fog of confusion,

away from me, desperate to create

instinctively grabbed for him to prevent injury. The motion

What on earth is going on?" Olivia gasped, her eyes

before her.

with practiced composure. "This drunk tried

lips.

rose in disbelief. "No, that can't be

horror as Olivia knelt beside Sean, gently

I've been telling you about! He must have had too much to

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not usually

me like

she'd been obsessing over, the one

rhapsodizing

Ex-husband. The father

true gentleman maintains his self-control

my voice steady. "Alcohol merely reveals one's true

understand," Olivia insisted. "He's

never

disrespect a

Sean's complicated history, about Christina, but couldn't

past.

barely know him," I protested, genuine concern for her safety mingling with

softened with determination. "If there

bear."

I asked carefully, trying to gauge exactly what

that I nearly laughed. "If he were married or had a girlfriend,

can't

gotten into you tonight?" Olivia's eyes

you this tense."

debate, I relented slightly. "How do you plan to

this

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