LOGINThere was groaning. My eyes opened on a man standing in front of me, back to me, and it felt like a dream, felt staged, felt like my own dying brain throwing up familiar furniture to comfort me, but I would know that posture against scientific evidence, against my own eyes. "Dominic." The name t
"And most importantly, Dominic and I are already married." The chuckle came out of me genuine, almost bright, a small insane bell in the middle of all this. "As long as I'm still married to Dominic Ford, I can never be your wife, Julian. I would never, under any circumstances that heaven or hell cou
CELESTE "You have no right to talk to me about vows, Julian." My voice came out steadier than my legs, and I took that small victory and held onto it. "You don't have the standing, Julian. You broke them first. Not me. You knew exactly what cheating meant to me. I told you plainly, in words, in th
"You're concerned about me now?" His head tipped, a small movement, careful, as though any larger one cost him. "Suddenly I matter?" "No." The word arrived with no escort and no manners. "What I feel about you is disgust. Pure, undiluted disgust, and it's happening right now, more intensely, becau
CELESTE The shooting thinned behind us, and then it was only the two of us breathing hard in whatever world we'd run into, his hand towing mine along at a pace that had no interest in my opinion about it. "Dominic." I called out the name as I told myself he must have gotten out of the building,
Julian's ruined face went flat, professional, almost bored. "Kill those two!" The order arrived and left on the same breath, and the men fired the moment it finished, and the noise was so total it stopped being sound and became weather. "No!" The word tore out of me. "No!" I watched the driv







