Derek's POV
It was my duty to stand at the door and greet my hosts one by one, not solely my role as my so-called stop brother was meant to be here too but was nowhere to be found. It was a family company after all, wasn't it?
But even as I stood at the door, I couldn't help but think about the guard who had knocked on my door a few hours ago and told me he had found Rose Rivera, my eloped wife.
I had refused to look at the picture he had taken, I ordered him out of my room and that I wasn't interested. It was the best lie I had told in a long time.
An action I regretted because if I had laid eyes on that picture, it would've erased the old Rose Rivera I knew and created this new picture of Rose Hans in my head. At the very least, I wouldn't have been so shocked and confused when I sa
