didn't

ull diagnostic, and the results were heartbreaking. The dog had broken ribs, deep

the stainless-steel exam table, barely letting

, his jaw clenched tight, looking as though h

servation. When the receptionist asked for the

ame,

ame,

will become th

en us was so heavy it was nearly suffocating. Silas

ntil we both retreated

tching Silas emerge from the mas

oss his face, softening the sharp

, dissipating like dying stars. For four years, I

made all my previous hopes feel

I called

at me, his deep eyes g

said still co

t th

tch. "You said I was your wife. You said you w

rs of my lips curling int

loor, murmuring cautiously, "Wh

ed casually. "J

d woken up for the night. My nerves felt like they were

nt," he s

t and turned off the light. I was instantly plunge

his warm breath brush against my cheek before

ight,

out into a deep sleep, I carefully untangled mys

yes traced the contours of his face-the high arch of his brow

ouldn't

extramarital affair. But deep in his heart, Seren

elf consumed by a da

his bed alone and remembers th