All Chapters of The contracted heart : Chapter 111

The drive home was silent.Not the comfortable kind of silence that had once wrapped around them like a blanket.This one sat heavy in the car, pressing against the windows, thick with everything neither of them knew how to say.Vanessa stared out at the city lights streaking past the glass.Alive. Bright. Untouched.It felt strange that the world kept moving like nothing had happened.Like a man hadn’t just stood in front of them and calmly admitted he was planning to tear their lives apart.Alexander’s hands stayed fixed on the steering wheel, knuckles pale beneath the soft glow of the dashboard.His jaw hadn’t unclenched since they left the gala.Vanessa noticed.Of course she noticed.She noticed everything about him.That had always been the problem.“You didn’t tell me,” she said quietly.The words slipped into the silence like a stone into stil