Betrayed Vows, Unfulfilled Wishes

her eyes wide with panic. "Noah! What are y

alking into the kitchen and opening the fridg

unnerving calm settled over him. It was the calm of a ship's captain who has acce

rough the fridge, to Olivia, who

... he had nowhere else to go. I just let him crash here for o

a hand, and s

her, and saw a stranger. "It doesn'

an outburst would have. "What do you mean, it doesn't m

ong drink, then deliberately placed the bottle on the counter, right next to the urn containing Liam's mother's

urned and walked toward the spare ro

bbing his arm. "Don't leave! We can fix this! I l

"You had twenty-seven chances, Olivia. And three m

moving with a methodical efficiency. He didn't look at her as she stood in the door

eeded the money to start over. As he walked through the open-plan workspace, he felt the f

s old corner

on the corner, and he was casually sipping a coffee from Liam's personalized

O'Connell. Looking for something? I can have secur

surge of hot rage through h

," Liam said calmly. "

nd vaguely disappointed, as if h

t the twenty-seven days of lies, about the marriage certificate. But what was the point? Explaining would just sound like the sour grapes of a loser. He could

the main office area, her face a mask of fury. She marched d

were doing last night?" she his

chair. "What? I was tire

ng!" She slammed her hand down on the desk. "This fake marriage was supposed to be a

you signed that paper. It's time to start acting like it." He stood up, towerin

hless with rage and a da

her that evening. It must have

g him out. Please, Liam. Just tell me where you are. I'l

message an

n magazines clutched in his hand. He had two suitcases filled with his

had left in the wor

ement for his flight echoing through t