Shattered Secrets: a Mafia Lawyer Amnesia Romance by Lilian Harris

Author:Lilian Harris [Harris, Lilian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 28

HADLEIGH

Friends? He wants to be friends?

Ha! Okay, yeah. I can’t just be friends with my own husband.

How will that even work? Does he introduce me to his future wife? Do we all live together happily ever after? The very thought of him being with someone continues to make me violently ill. Just like it did hours ago at the diner.

I can’t face him again. I can’t see him and appear as though I’m not falling apart. Because I don’t know how not to.

When he said he felt as though we were soulmates, when he repeated the exact line he once said on our first date, I wanted to die. My heart was ripping into pieces because something inside him was fighting to come out. Was fighting to remember, to feel, to be who he once was.

It’s there, I just know it. If only there was a way to get it back.

After he told me we could be friends, all I could say was okay. Because what else could I say? Saying no could mean goodbye. Could mean letting him go for good.

I can’t do that. At least this way, I can find a way back into his heart. I can fight. I can claw until he wants me like he once did.

But I don’t know how long I can stay here to do that. I can’t leave Holden for weeks or months.

It’s as though I’m caught between two worlds: my life in New York and the one currently here with the man I love.

Would he ever go back? Would he leave this new life behind for another one? Maybe telling him about Holden would convince him instead of terrifying him? But I’m afraid to take that chance. I need more time.

Slipping on a simple black pencil dress and low-heel pumps, both of which I found at the same store where I bought the powder-blue dress, I stare at myself in the mirror.

My hair’s styled straight, my eyes slightly smoky, a nude lip and a hint of blush.

Will he like what he sees?

Should I even be going to the wedding? I don’t know these people. This new life of his.

But I want to be near him. I want to talk to him. To look at him. Just be around him. That’s enough. Just having these little moments is enough. Because I once longed for them, begged, and cried for just one more moment. And I’m not about to let it go.

There’s a soft knock on the door, and my pulse instantly kicks up just like it did that first time he took me out on a date.

Except this isn’t a date. This is…I don’t even know what. But my heart doesn’t know that, beating triumphantly.

Grabbing my handbag, I hurriedly slip my phone into it before I head toward the door. With a deep breath, I open it and smile.

But as soon as I see him, my mouth drops and the heaviness in my chest grows tighter. Because the man in front of me is the most handsome man I’ve ever seen.

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