All Chapters of The Night Before My sisters Wedding : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Adelaide's POV:The termination letter was still folded in the side pocket of my carry-on when I landed, like keeping it close would somehow make it less real. “We appreciate your two years of service. Effective immediately.”Two years, summed up in one sentence and a cardboard box of desk plants I'd left behind because I couldn't stand to carry them through the airport.Two years since I'd left. Two years since I'd seen my family in person. And I was coming home with nothing to show for it but a firing letter and a suitcase.I was still replaying the meeting in my head, my manager's careful corporate voice, “we're restructuring, it's not personal,” when a man walked past the gate ahead of me and every other thought in my head went quiet.He wasn't doing anything. That was the strange part. He was just walking, phone in hand, a suit that fit like it had been built around him rather than bought off a rack, and something in the way he moved made the whole terminal feel like it was arr

“Victor.” My voice came out thinner than I wanted. “I’m not….”He smiled like I’d said something fond. His forehead dropped against mine, heavy, uncoordinated. The whiskey on his breath was sharp enough to leave no argument about how far gone he was.“You always do that,” he murmured. “Start a fight when you show up late.”“I’m Adelaide.”“Mm.” He kissed the corner of my mouth. The name went through him and came out the other side unused. “Andrea.”His eyes weren’t tracking right. When I leaned back to make him look at me, he followed the movement a half-second late, like the room was arriving to him in pieces.I should have put him on a chair and gone to find staff. Instead I hooked his arm over my shoulders because his knees had started to give, and the alternative was letting him fold onto his own garden path in front of his friends.“Walk,” I said. “You’re going inside.”“Bossy tonight.” The words slurred into my hair. “I like it.”“You won’t like it when you wake up on stone.” I