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.

thought suddenly crossed her mind. She needed to know if he still had

her at all.

she opened her eyes, she was met with a stark

deep, cold voice said from beside

to see a

stone.

his expression impossible to read. Though his eyes seemed capable of warmth, they

confused. “Who

around, lost.

eyes of his seemed to

the weight of his stare, Charlotte retreated behind

quivered, not entirely an act. Even now, after everything, his presence

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

knife could reach. Five years

it reduced to “friend”

breath.

years of love and

the door opened, and a young boy who looked

was Julius Harrison, their

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