Chapter 2045

Jocelyn shook her head so hard that her ponytail whipped across her shoulders. "No. I won't sleep unless I know he's safe. I have to find him, Yannick."

Her determination had left her distracted for days. Yannick's patience finally cracked, and the question slipped out before he could stop himself.

"Jocelyn... do you still love him?"

The question hit her like a slap. She froze, breath caught halfway.

Her lashes lowered, shielding eyes that suddenly dared not meet his.

Yannick watched that tiny, telling movement and felt the truth drop like a stone in his chest.

She had warned him from the start, had explained every tangled feeling in clear words, yet the actual sting of it still surprised him.

Jocelyn's fingers curled into a tight fist. She opened her mouth to answer.

Yannick raised a hand. "Don't worry about it. I asked on impulse. You don't owe me an explanation."

The air between them thickened, his own emotions crowding his lungs until every breath felt shallow.

Jocelyn was not the most perceptive woman, but even she sensed the weight pressing on him now.

She lifted her chin and managed to meet his gaze at last. "Yannick... I'm sorry."

He forced a crooked smile. "For what? You haven't done anything wrong."

throat, as though


voice—and the moment. "Come on.

the pavement, shaking

should get back

all, what fiancé spends the night searching for the man his

sagged. "All right. If you need

no further

She nodded once. "Mm."

slid to the curb. Jocelyn climbed in, then looked back through the open window.

etly

the taillights

car and smash a fist against the steering wheel, the leather

does Nicholas Rainsworth have that

echo of his question in the cramped


Hope flared surely it was Jocelyn, already

half expecting a different name, then exhaled when the caller

flickered across his eyes, gone almost before it showed. "Calvin,

place. I need to know he's all right." Calvin's voice was

to Sven? Whoever tries

you see him, call me. Tell him I want a

with that tone, Yannick could only sigh

out in a

Jocelyn and

now," Calvin cut in, leaving no room for

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