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“I’m telling you that is her. I remember her picture in the paper.”
“She’s back from the dead?”
“She must have survived.”
That Amber had become the hot topic of the evening made Olivia extremely irate. She had spent tens of thousands of dollars on this designer dress, and barely anyone even complimented her.
Now, her man was out there dancing with some other woman.
She was furious. She needed to find a way to ruin this moment for them, for Amber.
Something that would humiliate her so bad that she would be run out of the pack. Olivia landet on an idea and had to fight to withhold her smirk. Leaning toward one of the group of gossipers, she stirred the pot.
spid you know that Amber cheated on Julian during their marriage?”
Julian’s POV
Holding Amber in my arms again felt like a dream. I was practically floating on air, having her pressed so close to me. Her scent was familiar, yet also somewhat new.
We had so much to talk about. What happened to her hair, and her scent, since she got on that plane? And how had she survived? There was so much I wanted to hear from her, so much I wanted to learn. Yet it never felt like the right time to talk about it.
Right now, for instance, in the middle of the dance floor being watched by most members of high society was not the right time.
I kept my eyes on Amber, trying to relearn the dips and planes of her face. Even this close, she was absolutely beautiful. She would have made such a perfect Luna. I had been such a fool back then.
“Amber…” I said as the song came to an end. Slowly, our movements stopped and we stood still in the center of the room. Our dance might have been over, but that didn’t mean I wanted this moment to be over.
I wanted to make this moment last as long as physically possible. If I could have made it last forever, I would have gone for that.
“Maybe we can go somewhere quiet and talk,” I said gently.
Others were starting to dance now, with a new song beginning. I didn’t want them to overhear me.
She shook her head. “I have to go.”
“But you just got here,” I said.
“An hour ago.”
Had it been so long? “Amber, please. Let’s just talk for a minute.”
“No,” she said. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“But -“
“Please excuse me,” she said, and started to back away.
I stood frozen for a moment, shocked by her rejection and how it affected me.
Since I thought she had died, it was as if I turned off a part of my emotions, like I was trying to protect myself from feeling too much of anything, including grief.
Now that she was back, it was like that switched had been flicked back to on. Suddenly, I was feeling everything again, the good and the bad.
I felt out of control, like buzzing bees were trapped under my skin.
Her rejection stung, and it didn’t make sense. If we could just talk about things, then we could work everything out. I was so sure of it.
And I could lose her again by watching her walk out of my life once more.
So I followed her, staying on her trail as she walked out of the banquet hall, and then out of the building entirely.
The cool night air did nothing to bring me back to my senses. I was still so convinced that if I could just speak to Amber, if she could listen to me, then I could fix everything.
All the hurts of the past would disappear.
Except…
“Mommy!”
A small girl jumped down from Roman’s arms and rushed up the sidewalk to fly into Amber’s. Roman was on the sidewalk, moving closer like he had come from the parking lot.
Amber kissed the girl’s cheek. And I could see now this girl was the friend I had made in the hallway at the hospital.
Alice.
She’d called Amber, Mommy. Which meant…
My gaze slid to Roman, as I desperately tried to math out the timeline in my head.
Alice was in kindergarten…
If Roman was her father, then that meant that…
My stomach dropped and my blood went cold.
For Roman to be the father meant that Amber had to have cheated on me. It also meant that when Amber’s plane went down, it wasn’t my child she was pregnant with.
Roman had fathered her child…
She had cheated on me even then!
“Who is that? Isn’t that Alpha’s ex-wife? I thought she died?” came the loud gossip from some of the smokers, where they stood just beside the door.
“But didn’t that little girl call her Mom?”
“And how is that guy? The Dad?”