登入Rhona grew up watching her mother's marriage fall apart. After her parents' separation, she decided not to let her mom's love life destroy hers and promised herself to find a love that's worth her decision Then she meets Adrian Cole at Westbridge University. A dark, handsome, confident, intelligent, w wealthy, and impossible-to-comprehend young man Given with all his attributes, Adrian slowly becomes the person Rhona never believed she'd fall for but his mixed signals, cocky nature, manipulative act leaves her with more questions than answers, just when she started to believe that there might be something real between them even when they were not dating Adrian leaves her to pick up the broken pieces after months and weeks of giving all her love and duties to him Years later, Rhona and Adrian had become successful lawyers, and they met again without recognizing each other at a club, but the connection felt strangely familiar, and before Rhona could understand why, she found herself drawn to the man she had promised herself she'd forgotten That leaves Rhona to decide whether some love stories deserve a second chance or whether the love she promised herself she'd find was never Adrian.
查看更多The phone rang at 2:47 in the morning and Rhona knew before she picked it up.She wasn't sure how. It was just the hour. Nobody called at that hour with good news, and she had spent enough nights in hospital corridors that her body understood it before her mind did. She was sitting up with her hand already out, her heart going hard, and the name on the screen was the one she'd told herself she wouldn't be waiting for.She answered anyway."Adrian?""Rhona." His voice was thin and flat, the voice of someone talking through a wall. "I'm sorry. I know it's late. I know you said not to call unless it was urgent.""What happened?""Claire's in the hospital. We're at Mount Sinai on the east side. She started bleeding about an hour ago. They took her in and they're doing something now, and I don't know." He stopped and she heard him breathe. "I just didn't want you to hear it from somebody else. I didn't want you to find out from Marcus or from a text going around. I wanted to tell you mysel
Adrian had been awake for thirty hours when Claire went out for a walk.It was almost eleven on Thursday night and she said she needed air. She put on the yellow raincoat and stood at the door for a second with her hand on the knob, looking back at him like she wanted to say something else. Then she just said, "I won't be long," and went.He didn't ask where. He had given up asking Claire questions about three days ago, because every answer seemed to open a new one.The apartment went quiet. He sat on the couch with the laptop open on his knees and did nothing with it. The email he'd started on Wednesday was still there, half written, addressed to his supervisor, asking if he could take Friday off for a family matter. The words family matter looked ridiculous on the screen. He deleted them and typed personal matter and that looked worse.Ken came out of his room in a t-shirt and boxers and stood in the doorway with his arms crossed."She left again?""She wanted a walk.""At eleven at
RhonaAdrian said it in the end, but not in the way she wanted."I don't know," he said.Two words. They sat in the room like something heavy that someone had dropped and nobody wanted to pick up. Rhona waited for them to turn into other words, for him to add a sentence that made it better, and he didn't."You don't know," she said."I don't know if it's mine.""That's not the same as saying it isn't.""No." He looked at the floor again. "It isn't."Claire made a small noise and sat back down on the arm of the couch, and for a second Rhona thought she might say something sharp. She didn't. She just held the tissue in her fist and stared at the dark window."Tell me how," Rhona said."Rhona.""I'm not going to scream. I'm not going to throw anything. I just want to know how this happened, and I want you to say it in order, like you would to a judge."He nodded slowly. It was the kind of nod a person gives when they know they have lost the right to argue about the terms."It was August,
*Rhona*Rhona woke up to the smell of toast burning.For a second she had no idea where she was. The ceiling was the wrong shade of white. The light coming through the blinds was thin and grey. Then she felt the sheets against her bare shoulders, and the ache in her body that was the good kind of ache, and it all came back like a wave that had been waiting politely for her to open her eyes.Adrian's room. Ken's birthday. The kitchen counter.She pulled the blanket up to her chin and stared at the ceiling and let herself smile, just for a moment, before the smile got complicated.The bed beside her was empty. The pillow still had the dent of his head in it. She put her hand there and it was cold.Somewhere down the hall, a cupboard slammed. Then a voice, low and tight. Ken's, she thought. Then Adrian's, quieter. She couldn't make out the words, only the tone, which was the tone of two people arguing and trying very hard not to sound like it.She sat up slowly and found her top on the f
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