Chapter 41 Saving Herself for Sterling… And Sterling Only
Any other emotions Brendan could have felt had been displaced by unrelenting ire. “God, I’m going home. I’ll see her tomorrow.”
That took Steven by surprise, but he nodded nonetheless. “Shall I drive you home now?”
“No. Pass me the keys. I’ll drive.”
He checked his suit and headed to the parking garage, almost a little too frantically.
His car zipped through the road, tearing through the air like a fired bullet. When he arrived, he immediately scanned the living room. Resentment flitted past his eyes – he had thought that it would at least be lit.
Because that would mean someone was waiting for him to come home.
checked himself. She was
He was sure she would
strode toward the door and pushed
table was empty-devoid of the warm supper that
waiting for hours to see him come home, were over. Gone was the way her face used to light up gingerly, her bashful joy the moment he stepped into the house, and the way
he felt suffocated. In his mind, there was only
replaced him in her heart, and Brendan had never been
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him with all her heart. Ha! Was this the extent of her love? Was her love so dirt – cheap that any random man could arouse her supposedly profound love?! Brendan flung his coat to the floor and stormed upstairs. He then shoved the door
was already soundly asleep, but the commotion freaked her out of her slumber. Panic crawled all over her features, and she tugged her comforter even closer to herself, almost as though it
was terrified. That display of terror burned
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