Chapter 3Juliet povI stared at him, and the word fiancé did nothing inside me, no warmth, no fear, only an empty place where a feeling should have been.“I do not remember you,” I said, and my voice came out thin and cracked.“I know,” he said. He still did not sit.“My name is Jaxon De Luca,” he said flatly, with no hope that it would mean anything to me, and it did not.Jaxon De Luca.I repeated it silently, and waited for something to answer, and nothing did.“Listen carefully, because I will say this once,” he continued, in the voice of a man reading a report aloud.“Five days ago you called my daughter’s nanny and asked to take Nina for a walk near the old quarter.She wandered away from you, she ran into the road, and you pushed her out of the way.My car hit you instead, and my daughter is unhurt.”He said it without once looking away from my face, and without one word in it that asked how I felt, and I felt my fingers tighten on the sheet.He is the one whose car hit me, I t
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