Rachel didn't actually expect Dominic to choose her. Expecting his loyalty was a mistake she had cured herself of in the warehouse.
He had never chosen her before. Every single time they were together, whenever a moment mattered, Natalie would conveniently suffer a sudden medical emergency, and Dominic would vanish.
Rachel vividly recalled her twenty-third birthday. The room had been packed with their mutual friends, the lights dimmed, and the candles on her cake flickering warmly. Just as she leaned in, taking a breath to blow them out, Dominic’s phone had buzzed.
It was Natalie, claiming she was having a severe heart attack. Without a single word to his fiancée, Dominic had bolted from the room, leaving Rachel standing entirely alone, her chest tight with humiliation while a room ful
