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.

needed to know if

her at all.

with a stark white ceiling, and confusion

awake,” a deep, cold voice said

to see

stone.

his eyes seemed capable of warmth, they held none

blinked, confused.

lost.

his seemed to pierce right through

of his stare, Charlotte retreated behind a facade

me like that?” Her voice quivered, not entirely an act. Even

looked away almost instantly, his voice as cold as ever. “Nothing. And… I’m just

heart, deeper than any knife could reach. Five years – five years of marriage,

of it reduced to “friend”

breath.

those years of love and devotion had

young boy who

Julius Harrison,

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