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.

pills knocked him out until past

he woke. “Can you make that

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“Miss Winters‘ special

“Yeah.”

but

face darkened. “Why

specific ingredients. Plus all the fresh components. Can’t start it

now.”

goes in it, but not how she actually

“Regular soup

can

back, rubbing his temples, when a knock made

she come back?

“Come in.”

appeared in the

must have shown because her smile faltered. “Oh… it’s

expression, nails

who he’d

she plastered on a smile. “Rosa said you weren’t

“Fine,” he muttered.

pulling up her phone.

itinerary. We should road trip it, maybe get a driver since the distances are crazy. After Glacier we could-”

voice suddenly felt like nails on a

was pounding, and her constant

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he needed–her miracle soup,

snapped. “Later. Not now.”

phone lowered

bothering you?” The hurt in her voice was carefully

the

him, the

gentlemen’s club

group of young aristocrats were gathered around a bridge table. James caught sight of Asher’s wrist.

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