ELIZABETH POV I sat in that living room for a long time, just staring at nothing. My brain had completely given up trying to process anything. Every time I tried to grab onto a thought, it slipped away. Christian is alive. Christian is alive, and he looked at me like I was a stranger, and he has a fiancée, and I’m currently under house arrest in the house we used to spend weekends in together. None of this is real. It can’t be. Except that the guards stationed around me, like furniture, were very real. One by the door, one near the hallway, both of them watching my every move with the energy of men who got paid not to blink. My phone beeped from inside my bag on the piano. I got up on legs that weren’t fully cooperating and grabbed it. James. I stared at his name on the screen for a second and almost laughed. What exactly was I supposed to tell him? I picked up. “Hi James, how are you?” "Elizabeth, Jesus. Where are you? They called me, saying you're over an hour la
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