lt like the w

eaming metal and shattering glass and my body was being thrown in directions bodies weren't mea

eping machines

Can you

kind eyes, concern written across her features. I tried to

ious accident. You're at Mercy General Hospi

we

ed through my ribs. The doctor ge

fractured collarbone, and severe he

lucky. I felt like I'

see you. Your friend Jame

. His normally crisp appearance was rumpled, dar

We thought w

" My voice came

and you hit the barrier. Your car flipped three times." James's voice c

nish. He did

. Cross, I need to run some tests.

02

ith James. Something col

What's

"It's 2028. Five years have pa

him. "That's

d me the date. May 15, 2028. "You have retrograd

pun. Five

rger. I'd just made junior executive." I looked at James, panic ri

he company, actually. Your father ret

even in my memories

s's expression told me there w

t married four years ago. To a woman named Elara Bennett.

Married? Divorced? I had no m

y would I marry someone

work." James rubbed his face. "Look, I only met her a handful of times. She seemed nice. Qu

have a p

and formal, standing beside a woman with dark hair and sad eyes. She was beautiful, delicate, wearing

rently married. I felt nothing. N

me abo

then after the wedding you barely mentioned her. She stopped coming to events after the first year.

. Of cour

d we di

hat you were handling it. That was two weeks

The day I cou

twice as profitable, earned a reputation as ruthless and brilliant. I'd cut ties with old

y?" I asked

t yourself feel anything. You were driven, successful,

ber buying. Everything was expensive and cold, like a hotel room rather than a home. I walked thro

n in my own hand but sounding like a stranger. Cold,

sk, underneath old contracts, a sealed envelop

dated two years ago.

eing terrified of vulnerability, about pushing her away because caring about som

ed it away and apparently conti

ying to feel something, t

rway. "I need you to find her. Elara. I need

let it go. The doctors sai

hat the doctors

. When he came back, h

changed her name back to Bennett." He paused.

I booked a fli

vibrant and alive in a way she'd never looked in our weddi

back exit. I foll

wait.

e unreadable. "What

ber the last five years. I don't remember you, or

't remem

ice made my chest a

eaking glass. "Of course you don't.

what I did. Hel

e. "You married me, Damien. You made me fall in love with you,