Rising From Wreckage: Starfall's Epic Comeback

oor-to-ceiling windows with an aggre

ad come back only for her passport and her laptop. She

as a museum of

But thrown across the foot of it was a charcoal gray suit jacket. Cli

f the morning, changed his soaked clothes, and left again before

rough water. She picked up the jacket. It was heavy,

it closer

was something else. Something sweet. Sickeningly flor

her stomach. She gripped the fab

led in the inne

ulled out a thick, cream-colored envelope. It wasn't a

open

ntout. A grainy black an

old, undeniable letters:

Octobe

ber

the day Clive had told her he was in Boston for a merger

en holding Angelena's hand at a fer

ttered to the floor, landing face up. The

l the moisture out of her body in the hospital wa

massive apartment. The heavy thud of the oak door closing

stood by the bed, the

y showered from the gym, wearing a crisp white shirt, sl

ead. For a split second, his expression falt

replaced by his standard

esser to grab a watch. "You decided to co

tal," Analia said.

, Analia, crying wolf is getting old. If you wanted my attention, yo

ser, crossing his arms. "Well? Are you going to

face, the jawline she used to trace with her fingers, the eyes that used to

ngelena?"

osture stiffened p

eated. "Is she healthy

o the jacket in her hand, then to the floor. He

between them, thic

ed, his voice low and dangerous. He did

t Boston," Ana

's complicated, Analia. You wouldn't understand. Ang

ia let out a short, dry laugh. "Do you think I'm stupi

he media is tearing her apart. She has nobody. I h

onsibility to me?" Analia

ou have everything, Analia. You live in a ten-million-dollar penthouse. You h

sound in his pocket," she said, dropping the jacket onto the

ckly. Too quickly. "She just... she

lt, that it was true. She didn't care if it was his or n

ked into the massi

ing?" Clive deman

. It was the one she had brought with her from her college

pening a drawer and grabbi

olling his eyes. "You're not going anywhere. We have the c

ger. She grabbed the hard drive that contained th

boomed. "Stop this. You'

case shut. She stoo

Clive," she sai

ht her arm, his grip firm but

you don't come back. I won't have a wife w

hand on her arm. Then sh

Clive," she said s

ed her a

idn't chase her. He was too proud. He thought she would stop at

ltrasound on the floor before