The storm brewing on Sean’s face was unmistakable. The alt around him turned ice–cold pressure building like aing thundersion.
Zar was still stuck <b>in </b>the past, clinging <b>to </b>what–its.
“Charlotte. if you’d just told me the truth, we might already be married by now. We could’ve been so happy.”
Charlotte simply looked at lúm—quiet<b>, </b>expressionless. Like a stranger.
“Did you forget, Zac? You once said you’d never marry me. Your mother, Monica, humiliated me to my face. She said girls like me weren’t good enough for the Gibson family ”
Those words, slurp as knives, <bnded </b>squarely in <b>Zer’s </b>chest.
His eyes filled with tears. His woler cracked.
“The only thing that ever let us apart was status. That’s gone now. There’s nothing stopping us
He took a step forward<b>, </b>reaching out to take her hand–groping at onest chance.
But before he could touch her <b>seau </bnded a brutal kick to his chest, licking him t to the ground. Wither salg beat, Sean stepped forward, <b>his </b>polished leather shave pressing down hard on Zac’s face, grinding it into the floor.
The <b>crowd </b>gasped.
The <b>room </b>darkened with the storm in Sear’s eyes. His voice was low,ced with fury.
*i wamed <b>you</b>. <b>Touch </b><b>her </b>again, and I’ll ruin you.”
Zac didn’t <b>teis </b>
Low his face.
Hey there <b>like </b><b>a </b>dead fish, <b>lifeless </b>on the <b>floor</b>, Sean’s <b>foot </b>still on
He tumed his <b>head </b><b>slightly</b>, looking up at Charlotte with hollow, bloodshot eyes. <b>Despair </b><b>spread </b>through every part of him like poison in his veins.
was in that moment be realized just how pathetic he had breit.
i willi memodes<b>, </b>une all other like old film reels shing before his eyes Scenes from their time together, i Dow twisted into des clicing though his heart.
, magents of intimacy andughter,
Helud messed everything <b>up </b>
He had refused to go home with her, let his mother humiliate her without saying a word, uded Wendy and like a trophy, and even told her right in front of Wendy–that he would never mury <b>her </b>
He tooled around with Wendy, <b>ed </b>ecklessly, and <b>everance </b>stopped to think <b>about </b>how Charlotte felt.