Todos os capítulos de Before He Was My Boss.: Capítulo 101 - Capítulo 104

Donovan Reynor POVI didn’t like the idea of her going back to work.But I couldn’t stop her either. Not anymore. Not the way I used to be able to, with a single order, a single expectation, a single word that used to bend everyone and everything around me into whatever shape I demanded them to.For the past two weeks, I’d taken care of her. In ways I didn’t know I was capable of. I’d never learned to care for anyone. Not really. Not properly. My entire life had been a crash course in distance— locking people out, managing and measuring relationships, giving exactly as much as necessary and not one percent more.But doing it with Aurélie, feeding her when her arm hurt too much to hold a spoon, sitting up with her through headaches that left her sobbing silently into her pillow, learning which blanket she preferred and which candle made her exhale a little easier had shown me something I hadn’t expected.I wanted to keep doing it. For the rest of my life, if she’d let me.Even with the

The outside breeze hit me like a wave from some invisible force field.It shouldn’t have felt that relieving. But it did.I tipped my head back, staring up at the sky, the city lights washing out most of the stars, leaving only a hazy orange glow above me. My eyes started to burn, tears building fast, threatening to spill before I’d even processed why.I was overwhelmed. Completely, utterly overwhelmed.“God, Aurélie, what are you doing?” I whispered to myself, pressing my palms against my temples.My mind was noisy. Too noisy. A relentless wave of everything I’d been trying not to think about for weeks — the accident, the hospital, the confession he’d never known I somehow heard while trapped in that coma, and then the way he’d looked at Warren tonight like he wanted to set the entire bar on fire.I needed a different kind of relief.A cigarette. Weed. Anything. Because the shots clearly weren’t cutting it anymore.I turned to head back inside, already scanning the sidewalk for someo