Marry the Don, Forget the Man
A dark stubble shadowed his jaw, and deep hollows carved out the space beneath his eyes, which were shot through with red.
He was breathing hard, like he'd been waiting outside for hours, biding his time until he found a way in.
The moment his eyes landed on me, they turned glassy.
"Elena…" His voice scraped out of him, cracked and raw. "I searched everywhere for you. Everywhere. I've been going out of my mind. And now I finally find you—and you're marrying another man?"
I blinked, struggling to reconcile this wreck of a man with the Brian I once knew.