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.

She needed to know if

her at all.

with

cold voice said

to see

stone.

expression impossible to read. Though his eyes seemed capable of warmth, they held none of it now as they stared

blinked, confused. “Who

looked around, lost. “Where

Those steel–gray eyes of his seemed

his stare, Charlotte

“W–why are you looking at me like that?” Her voice quivered, not entirely an act. Even now, after

cold as

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

of it reduced to “friend”

breath.

love and

and a young boy who

was Julius Harrison,

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