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

her at all.

her eyes, she was met with a

deep, cold voice

see a

stone.

sharp and chiseled, his expression impossible to read. Though his eyes seemed capable of warmth, they held none of

confused. “Who

around, lost. “Where am

steel–gray eyes of his

the weight of his stare, Charlotte retreated behind

entirely an act.

cold as ever. “Nothing. And… I’m just a friend of

carved new wounds into her heart, deeper than any knife could reach. Five years – five years of marriage, of carefully molding herself into what she thought

to

breath.

years of love

the door opened, and a young boy who looked just

was Julius

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