pered to myself as i adjust
ress hugging my curves like second skin. My makeup was flawless, my smile effortles
at the cloc
d still w
sn't come home
or to the balcony. The city lights stretched far beyond me, alive with noise
not
ton
t e
the man
n't glanced at me since thr
I have loved
heart. I slipped back inside, calm composed mask in place, just as Damian Blackwood stepp
said, my voice l
t tossed his keys on the counter an
niversary," I
se. "R
owers. Not even a
inside of my cheek. I could pretend one more night. Just one more. But then, something inside m
a divorce
owed was louder than h
y, his cold, unreadab
I am bein
did y
tly, tears no
ng your wife on paper and invisible in every
r, his jaw tense.
not once have you touched me, held me, or looked at me like I was anything more than a ro
g, but the flicker
pected. I guess this divorce a
his shirt without a wo
ave asked me for my opinion." Damian broke the silence, as he turned to face me. My ey
contract and today marks the end of our contract. Why sounding li
his shoulder with mine, the
nd them over," I said. And for the first time in
IAN
quietly, I al
divorce,
I'd mish
t me, not with ang
...
pted something I never
speak. I
reathing fo
st me, the hem of her silk dress whispering against my
longest conversat
ead to watch
n't loo
quiet after she di
lway
nce pressed against m
ugh I didn't need one. The b
't lov
hat I to
I bel
merger of names and reputations. She was bea
he'd
d the dam
ew the
l like something sharp had
feel bad
owly, pausing at the do
as c
ver cl
twisted
covers, eyes closed, her back turned. Her breathing
used to w
said somethi
know how or
suit, watching the woman I married curl int
ybe sh
he alre
sleep t
the ceiling, wondering when silence stopped be
I checked h
t. Her smile was radiant. Her
at it t
w cle
t want to name fl
sn't
uldn'
n what the hell have I b