hapter 20
The car service dropped Drake off at 3 AM, barely conscious as he stumbled to bed fully dressed.
He woke to his stomach in knots.
“Thalia,” he mumbled through the hangover haze, “grab my meds?”
The silence hit him like a wall.
“Thalia? Thalia-”
Reality crashed in as his eyes snapped open.
Right. She’d moved out.
The emptiness in his chest felt worse than his stomach.
After searching every cabinet for medicine and finding nothing, he finally caved and called Rosa, his
housekeeper.
She answered, groggy but professional.
“The meds, where are they?”
Looking at her phone–4 AM–Rosa counted to ten.
These trust fund kids would be the death of her.
“First–aid kit, Miss Winters‘ room, top drawer,” she managed evenly.
He found the kit but faced a new problem: a pharmacy’s worth of medications stared back at him.
Thalia had always known exactly which ones he needed.
He scanned labels, swallowed something that seemed right, and hoped for the best.
out until
woke. “Can you make that stomach
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“Miss Winters‘
“Yeah.”
sorry, but I
face darkened. “Why
needs overnight prep–special herbs, specific ingredients. Plus all
now.”
she added carefully. “I know what goes in it, but not
“Regular
I can
rubbing his temples, when
come back?
“Come in.”
in the
must have shown because her smile faltered. “Oh… it’s
expression, nails digging into
exactly who he’d
said you
“Fine,” he muttered.
him, pulling up her
found–the perfect Montana itinerary. We should road trip it, maybe get a driver since
like nails on
pounding, and her constant
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known exactly what he needed–her miracle soup,
snapped. “Later. Not now.”
lowered
bothering you?” The hurt in her voice was carefully
winning. “Just the headache. We’ll plan later, okay?”
against him, the picture
at an old–world gentlemen’s club
young aristocrats were gathered around a bridge table. James caught sight of Asher’s wrist.
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