When Her "Death" Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel)

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

his voice—and the moment. "Come on. I'll

the pavement,

take a cab. You should get back to work." Her refusal

spends the night searching for the man his fiancée pines

right. If

made no

She nodded once. "Mm."

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

etly

said nothing. He simply watched the

drop into his own car and smash a fist against the steering wheel, the leather muffling

does Nicholas Rainsworth have that

echo of

surely it

polished bar top. He snatched it up, half expecting a different name, then exhaled

his eyes, gone almost before it showed. "Calvin, what's

Sven's place. I need to know he's all right." Calvin's voice was low, unhurried, yet it carried an

could happen to Sven? Whoever tries

tone sharpened. "I said go. Once you see him, call me. Tell him I

tone, Yannick

head out in

check on Jocelyn and see if she

Calvin cut in,