nown

beneath him like fallen constellations. A half-empty glass of whiskey dangled from his hand, the i

s. The clip had already gone viral, spliced, remixed, memed, and dissect

c. Not until the very last second, when her k

," he muttere

vanished the moment he saw her father's face. Those same eyes stared back at him...haunting him once m

be the reason

raised the last of his whiskey. Fate had finally h

his chest, echoing into the night

ialed his PA. It rang a few ti

Baker," he ordered, ending

-

milla

as I stared at the file the house

e top, right beneath the

father's

ouldn't

dn't spoken to me since the scandal, the wedding

my chest. My life already felt ruined, and

my phone and

me by after work?"

got a lot to finish today. I

down at the file. "It just feel

ue. I've just been busy.

't called, haven't replied to my texts..." My throa

Calm down. I'm

into my room. She wrapped me up wit

ce. "I shouldn't have left like that last

so alone. George cheating, the

milla. You have to let hi

who that woman in the picture was. The one that came blurred.

s flashing. "You what? C

he chose her over me." My voice shook.

ange what happened." She d

ave me from what's coming."

ead, her mouth twisting. "Wh

now... but this is too mu

gain. "We'll figure this out. But stop chas

silence. My chest felt

drink?" she f

Su

es. We clinked and drank. The burn st

t," Olivia said with a crooked sm

laugh es

ughed over old memories. T

I wasn't enough

. "You gave everything. He's

lder, tears dampening her

And humans love the wrong pe

tching the gla

to do about the fil

ken to me in weeks, and the fi

it's for the be

ad sharply, but

hung be

whiskey?" I fi

and we clinked glasses agai

for bei

id. "You break, I br

aintly. "Be

t fri

de, a sto

uld trade me off like a pawn,

.. not