Chapter 1 Heartbroken

Charlotte had crashed her car.

As she lay on the operating table, all she could think about was the photo she’d seen right before the accident.

The one of Arthur holding another woman, looking at her like she meant everything to him.

She couldn’t get it out of her head – how gently he held her, the way his eyes lit up.

She’d been so shocked looking at it, she didn’t even see the other car coming.

She might be his wife, but that woman was clearly the one he truly loved.

Five years of marriage, and he’d never once looked at Charlotte that way.

Just thinking about it made her chest

ache.

Now his first love was back in the picture, and Charlotte had to wonder if she even mattered to him anymore.

her mind. She needed to know if he still had

her at all.

opened her eyes, she was met with a stark white ceiling, and confusion

cold voice

turned to see a face

stone.

eyes seemed capable of warmth, they held none of

confused.

lost.

frowned. Those steel–gray eyes of his seemed to pierce right

weight of his stare, Charlotte retreated behind a

at me like that?” Her voice quivered, not entirely an act. Even now, after everything, his presence could unsettle her

his voice as cold as ever.

than any knife could reach. Five years – five years of marriage, of carefully molding herself into what she

to “friend”

breath.

years of love

and a young boy who

Julius Harrison, their

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