For a moment, I couldn't move.
Kian stood beside the open car door, one hand still resting on the frame, staring at me across the parking lot like the rest of the world had gone silent around us. He looked different than he had in the park hall two nights ago. Tired. Unshaven. Like guilt had been eating him from the inside out exactly the way Marcus said it had.
"Elena." My name left his mouth as it hurt him to say it.
Dominic stepped in front of me instantly, his whole body a wall between us. "Get back in your car."
"I need to talk to her." Kian's eyes moved past Dominic, locking onto mine, desperate in a way I'd never seen from him before, not once in two years of marriage. "Please. Just give me five minutes."
"You lost the right to five minutes the moment you rejected her in front
