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."

her throat, as


voice—and the moment.

rooted to the pavement, shaking her

get back to work."

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

"All right. If you need

no further

She nodded once. "Mm."

slid to the curb. Jocelyn climbed in, then looked

etly

nothing. He simply watched the taillights disappear

did he drop into his own car and smash a fist against the steering wheel, the

does Nicholas Rainsworth have that I

the echo


flared surely it was Jocelyn, already regretting her

it up, half expecting a different name, then

flickered across his eyes, gone almost

all right." Calvin's voice was

could happen to Sven? Whoever

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

Yannick could only sigh

head out in a

was planning to check on Jocelyn and

in,

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